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Today's column
Posted by Robin Abrahams
November 18, 2012 12:05 PM
... is online here. Ever been asked to participate in a wedding you weren't sure ought to happen in the first place? That's where today's LW is. A sample:
Love is a mystery, and none of us really knows what goes into, or goes on in, the marriage of another. It isn't hypocritical to celebrate the wedding of two people who you aren't entirely sure ought to be together. It is, however, arrogant to assume that you can plumb the mysteries of the human heart sufficiently to make such a call absolute. I mean, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman broke up, for the love of Moses. This makes it clear to me that no one, anywhere, knows anything about what makes marriages succeed or fail. So don't worry that you're giving a seal of approval to something that shouldn't have one.
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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.
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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.