Customs, Etiquette and Manners

January 7, 2021

How Can I Tell My Friend to Get It Together?

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December 31, 2020

Seriously? He Gets an Early Vaccine?

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Social Q’s Seriously? He Gets an Early Vaccine? My sister’s Covid-downplaying politician husband […]
December 24, 2020

Social Q’s: Covid Christmas Edition

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Social Q’s Social Q’s: Covid Christmas Edition The holidays are always complicated and […]
November 11, 2020

The New Rules of Virtual Wedding Gifting

There may be no Champagne, no breaking of the glass and no first dance. So do virtual wedding guests still need to give the happy couple […]
November 1, 2020

Learn the Etiquette of Virtual Weddings

With weddings this year being delayed, downsized or split into two — video ceremony now, party next year — many guests have some only-in-2020 etiquette questions. […]
October 22, 2020

Don't Watch Porn at Work and Other Tips

“If someone asked you before, ‘Do you want to sign up for a world in which your co-workers see inside of your house all the time?’, […]
October 8, 2020

Can You Watch My Son? (And Your Husband’s Rifle?)

I am a single mom with a young son. Because of the pandemic, I had to postpone a necessary (but nonemergency) surgery. My doctor thinks I […]
September 10, 2020

How Do I Tell My Friend to Stop Paying for His Son’s Lifestyle?

My friend’s son is a deadbeat. He’s 35, still lives at home, has never kept a job for longer than a year, buys things he can’t […]
August 20, 2020

From Handshakes to Fist Bumps: The Future of the Business Greeting

The handshake has been through a lot. Forged in antiquity, the preferred office greeting of the corporate era has survived the peace-sign-as-hello 1960s; the deal-clinching high-five […]
May 28, 2020

Do I Have Permission to Corona-Shame My Friend?

I saw a post on my friend’s Instagram that infuriated me: a picture of seven boys in a row, their arms slung over each other’s shoulders, […]