Dinner and a show?: How to tell a partner they’re behaving badly

It can be hard to tell a loved one that they are being embarrassing or inappropriate. Here are my favourite tips (including one I use), says Simran Mangharam.

I recently attended a get-together held at the home of a friend who had just moved to Bengaluru. Most of the people present had never met before. Among the couples, there was one in which the husband, let’s call him Viraj, had clearly had one too many. He began to raise his voice and drown others out, talk rudely to the help, and joke in graphic detail about things that were neither relevant nor appropriate.

Our hosts, my friend and