When someone offers to help you, be gracious about it. Accept the help gratefully and give yourself to that help. Do not protect your turf. Do not push the help away because you are under the gun. Give it thirty minutes or so. If by that time the person is not really helping all that much, then politely excuse yourself and terminate the session with thanks. Remember, just as you are honor bound to offer help, you are honor bound to accept help.
