DEAR MISS MANNERS: How do you respond when someone apologizes for a habitual offense? My husband often behaves miserably at events that have more interest for me than for him. He destroyed a recent weekend getaway with my extended family by being argumentative, critical and moody. As we were nearing home, he apologized for being grumpy. I had no idea how to respond. He is moody very often, and his behavior was not okay. GENTLE READER: Your husband is, Miss Manners hopes, habitually apologizing for specific similar offenses. But he is not apologizing once for them all — a more-than-semantic di…
