However, I know you regularly indicate that all invitations, no matter how casual, deserve a reply. How diligent do you feel a lady must be in responding to potential suitors? Is it appropriate to roughly match the amount of effort the suitor seems to have put into the message? All genuine invitations, yes, but solicitations do not qualify. If you are invited to the opening of a store that does not interest you, must you respond to the advertisement that invites you, even if it is addressed to you by name?
Online dating generally requires mutual agreement before socializing. Positive responses may lead to such, and therefore require the social niceties, but there seems little point in negative responses to opening overtures. As everyone is self-declared as available, the little excuses of being busy are patently false, and the rejected person can only conclude that it is on the basis of appearance or other qualifications.
Better to be left in doubt, consoling oneself with the notion that it is the non-respondent who is deficient. Just wondering about terminology. In that case, yes; commonly, they are also referred to as in-laws. Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. Share this: Click to share on Facebook Opens in new window Click to share on Twitter Opens in new window Click to print Opens in new window Click to email a link to a friend Opens in new window Click to share on Reddit Opens in new window.
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