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Today's column
... is online here. The first question is a real doozy. Here is the full, unedited version:
My stepson (33) married a young woman from England two years ago. They held their 3 day wedding celebration at my stepson's mother's home in New England. Their guests were asked to pay for the food and to do the cooking for the long weekend. His mother and my husband and I provided a tent and rented tables and chairs and paid for wine and did a lot of cooking for the 100 people for the wedding. Some parts of this were enjoyable but it was a lot of work and the wedding couple pretty much sat back and watched everyone work. Hard work, not just for the parent figures, but also for the guests who were cooking endlessly that weekend, after spending money on so many groceries - and paying for international flights.
Now the stepdaughter is turning 30 this summer and my stepson is asking everyone to do it again to celebrate her birthday. I am embarrassed by the wedding celebration that seemed to ask everyone else to take care of their life event. Can I say anything?
I was so gobsmacked by this I posted it on Facebook just to make sure that there wasn't something I was missing, that this was indeed as bad as it seemed.
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Welcome to Miss Conduct’s blog, a place where the popular Boston Globe Magazine columnist Robin Abrahams and her readers share etiquette tips, unravel social conundrums, and gossip about social behavior in pop culture and the news. Have a question of your own? Ask Robin using this form or by emailing her at missconduct@globe.com.
Welcome to Miss Conduct’s blog, a place where the popular Boston Globe Magazine columnist Robin Abrahams and her readers share etiquette tips, unravel social conundrums, and gossip about social behavior in pop culture and the news. Have a question of your own? Ask Robin using this form or by emailing her at missconduct@globe.com.
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Robin Abrahamswrites the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine and is the author of Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners. Robin has a PhD in psychology from Boston University and also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School. Her column is informed by her experience as a theater publicist, organizational-change communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology and English. She lives in Cambridge with her husband Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, and their socially challenged but charismatic dog, Milo.
Who is Miss Conduct?
Robin Abrahamswrites the weekly "Miss Conduct" column for The Boston Globe Magazine and is the author of Miss Conduct's Mind over Manners. Robin has a PhD in psychology from Boston University and also works as a research associate at Harvard Business School. Her column is informed by her experience as a theater publicist, organizational-change communications manager, editor, stand-up comedian, and professor of psychology and English. She lives in Cambridge with her husband Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prizes, and their socially challenged but charismatic dog, Milo.
