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With different work schedules, travel and other family obligations, accommodating the wishes of the one sibling has been ...

Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...

I’ve been told that my reply was rude, and one lady even remarked that my parents might be better off the way things are.

I have responded by telling them politely that the issue is a private family matter, and that I prefer not to discuss it with ...

Never mind that you, Miss Manners and probably your old family friends know you will not. The fact that you appear to be ...

Dear Miss Manners: While outside in the smoking area of a music venue a couple weeks ago, a woman next to me became a little ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: While outside in the smoking area of a music venue a couple weeks ago, a woman next to me became a little ...

Dear Miss Manners: I’m a physician, so I am used to people addressing me as “Dr. Jones.” That includes both patients and ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a reader on dealing with well-intentioned ...

Then, I realized she was still looking at my sleeve with an anxious, guilty expression, and she started brushing at the spot ...

A while back, a colleague of mine said that he and his wife would like to invite me to dinner at their home. The evening of ...