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Miss Manners: When a tenant loses a spouse, do I continue to address letters to ‘Mr. and Mrs.‘?
(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...
Miss Manners: I accidentally wrote to a deceased tenant and now the widow is upset
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to the etiquette of addressing correspondence after a ...
Asking Eric: Friend’s cheating ex moves into neighborhood with new wife
I ceased contact with the philanderer/deserter and have never spoken to the girlfriend (now wife), and I don’t intend to. Their divorce, because of the complexities of rearing children between two ...
Help! Every Time I See My Friend, It Feels Like I’m Visiting an Elderly Relative.
My girlfriend says to let it go and that everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. I told her that she was being dismissive ...
Miss Manners: I can’t win when writing to my widowed tenant
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Want to Be a Better Friend? Read These Books.
Judith Newman, who writes the Book Review’s self-help column, is the author of “To Siri With Love: A Mother, Her Autistic Son ...
Asking Eric: Friend’s cheating ex-husband moving in down the block
Not every neighbor needs to be your friend. But since you have a relationship with the kids and with their mom, you might ...
Dear Abby | Best friend shares a rumor that’s making the rounds
DEAR ABBY: My best friend of 45 years and I are 65. She has been married since 1985; I have been divorced for many years. She ...
A Massachusetts judge moves the legal case of a Turkish Tufts University student who is detained in Louisiana to Vermont
A Massachusetts judge moves the legal case of a Turkish Tufts University student who is detained in Louisiana to Vermont.