# Doing Anything To Help

**URL:** <https://forum04.loosid.cc/t/doing-anything-to-help/137055>\
**Category:** Recovery\
**Created:** [December 15, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://forum04.loosid.cc/t/doing-anything-to-help/137055 "2025-12-15T09:05:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![michael410470](https://forum04.loosid.cc/user_avatar/forum04.loosid.cc/michael410470/32/130769_2.png) [@michael410470](https://forum04.loosid.cc/u/michael410470)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 9:05am UTC](https://forum04.loosid.cc/t/doing-anything-to-help/137055/1 "2025-12-15T09:05:08Z")

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Offer him [the alcoholic] friendship and fellowship. Tell him that if he wants to get well you will do anything to help.  
— ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 95

I remember how attracted I was to the two men from A.A. who Twelfth-Stepped me. They said I could have what they had, with no conditions attached, that all I had to do was make my own decision to join them on the pathway to recovery. When I start convincing a newcomer to do things my way, I forget how helpful those two men were to me in their open-minded generosity.