Do you need help?

-Do you need help?

-No.

-C'mon, nobody does it alone. Why don't you loosen up, let others help you? All your problems stem from being stuck-up and independent. If you would only learn how to accept help from outside, life would be peachy.

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-Do you need help?

-Yes.

-(Why doesn't she ask her family first? Can't they help her?)

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-Do you need help?

-Yes.

-(Ugh, I was just asking to be polite. I really don't feel like helping. Can't she take a hint?)

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-Do you need help?

-Yes.

-What can I do for you?

-(I don't know, look around, don't you see that I am drowning here! Take the kids for an outing, pick up those scattered toys, change the baby's diaper, read a book to them. But maybe she's asking to be polite. Don't ask for too much. Feel her out). Um, nothing. Let me think about it.

-Oh, let me know.

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-Do you need any help?

-Yes, can you take the kids out for me?

-You are so hard to help. I was planning on offering this, but you want that. Don't you know how hard it is for me to do this? You cannot be so demanding. You have to be grateful that I am offering to help at all. If you would only accept the help that is being given, all your problems would melt away.

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-Do you still need any help?

-Yes. No. Maybe. What can you do for me?

-You are not being specific enough. How am I supposed to know what it is that you need help with?

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(She cannot possibly need help. She is all set, married to a doctor. She must be rolling in it. She must have a crew of cleaning ladies and babysitters at the snap of her fingers. I don't want to deal with her reality.)

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-Do you need help?

-NO!