Deal Fatigue?

I have a whole respect for deal fatigue. During a recent conversation with a fried and prior to this conversation I have used the phase deal fatigue. What does it mean? To me it means no matter what actions I took, the deal took its own course of actions that required specific milestones not know at the beginning of the deal opportunity. It went from an easy to evaluative to a complicated series of events that needed to happen before the deal really had any real value. I doubt that any of us associated with the deal could have known at any given time just how close the deal was to making or breaking. In other words, we just had to keep working our butts off and let the deal come to us. That’s fatigue in its purest since. At least to me for this specific trade….