One of Jonathan's characters is a scallywag lad called 'Bobby', who is always trying, through various schemes, under various pretexts, by hook or by crook, to extract from his interlocutor a 'shiny penny'. He pleads, begs, manipulates, and uses every trick in the book, until he extracts the shiny penny. However, once the shiny penny is extracted, he takes against it, find something wrong with it, and says how ill-treated and short-changed he is.
This is common in the world of recovery. Complaining, moaning, whining, upset, dysfunction, disorder; impassioned pleas for help; entreaties; begging.
What happens when a solution is offered?
That's when the tone changes: rejection, negotiation, prevarication, temporising, delay, and every tactic in the book not to accept and follow through with what is on offer.
By contrast, the Big Book suggests:
When, therefore, we were approached by those in whom the problem had been solved, there was nothing left for us but to pick up the simple kit of spiritual tools laid at our feet.