DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a teetotaler. My husband and most of our friends are avid connoisseurs of wine and spirits. Normally, ...

Eventually, the conversation becomes more animated than I can keep up with, as voices get a bit louder and arguments a little ...

Host who doesn’t drink wants to start cleaning up when husband and guests start getting drunk during dinner parties.

Gentle Reader: Curiously, the alcohol is clouding everyone’s judgment in this case — even yours, and you are not partaking.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a teetotaler. My husband and most of our friends are avid connoisseurs of wine and spirits. Normally, ...

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

The solution is to manage the time, as well as the quantity of alcohol consumed. After all, you did not keep serving the pot ...

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

GENTLE READER: Curiously, the alcohol is clouding everyone’s judgment in this case — even yours, and you are not partaking.

They went to dinner with her husband’s colleague and his wife – who very rudely shut down a conversation with the letter ...

The men promised they wouldn’t talk shop, but they did -- throughout the entire meal. There was no inclusion of us women. I ...

Dear Miss Manners: A very long time ago, my husband and I were invited to dinner at a restaurant by a colleague of his. I had ...