DEAR MISS MANNERS: My companion and I prefer to entertain, and we’ve the means to take action recurrently.
We regularly invite neighbors over, however we omit one particular neighbor (whom we see recurrently) as a result of he’s very vocal about his political views. We attempt our greatest to maintain our social occasions lighthearted and enjoyable.
I really feel unhealthy that we haven’t invited this neighbor, and I’m positive he notices that he’s ignored. Is there a method to inform him that he’d be welcome if he stored his political views to himself? We run into him steadily, and it has turn into awkward.
GENTLE READER: Extra awkward than telling him that he’s welcome in your home provided that he can maintain his opinions to himself?
By no means thoughts. Even when Miss Manners had been in a position to concoct such a plan, it could not work. You must be capable to select whom you do — or don’t — like, and with whom you want to socialize. However the possibilities that somebody who’s insensible to the issue would show any extra acceptable had been he to restrict his dialog to nonpolitical matters make this not price pursuing.
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