I think that's really sad for those people ...

We give and receive plenty of help, in really diverse ways ... everything from helping mates move to hemming pants and being a birth partner!

Sometimes it's without needing to be asked, other times there's a need raised and met.

And it definately goes both ways most of the time - but we have a couple of friends who just genuinely aren't in a position to reciprocate (they have 5 kids under 4, including triplets...) but they still get loads of help from most of us, because it's not a tit-for-tat economy with our mates.

It's great that so many of us here have a different reality, where people are helpful