Help! I Told My Girlfriend My Secret Tactic for More Legroom on a Flight. She Threatened to Report Me.

Dear Prudie: Is it so rude to silently say, “No, I don’t want you to recline” to someone who is practically putting their seat in my face without asking? When you literally cannot reach to the floor to retrieve your handbag, tempers are going to flare, so the only solution is to politely ask the person in front of you if he or she would mind putting the seat up just a notch or two .

Dear Prudence : My fiancé is dead set on two women he was formerly in love with attending our wedding.

One of whom he confessed he still had feelings for a month before he proposed.

He was infatuated with them for a very long time.

They both turned him down for long-term relationships, but not before using him to cheat on their significant others.

It’s not “betraying your mother” if you like someone she does n’t , says Prudence .

It's perfectly appropriate for a host to say, “So lovely to see you. Thanks for coming. You’re on mashed-potato duty” to a guest.