Today's column

February 12, 2012|Robin Abrahams, Globe Staff

... is online here. In which I lay down the law about invitations to big affairs:

[N]o-spouses business dinners and single-sex nights out are kosher, but at life-event celebrations to which couples are invited, complete couples must be invited. You don't get to invite one half of a couple because you don't like the other half, or because you disapprove of the relationship. I'm dismayed that I have to explain what ought to be a common-sense rule of courtesy, but you aren't the first person who has asked if married couples must be considered as united through sickness, health, and other people's parties.

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