This isn't a book about heartbreak. It's a book about betrayal in its most silent, strategic, and revisionist form.
The Deal Changed. I Didn't. is a brutal, brilliant breakdown of what happens when people shift the goalposts without telling you - when they rewrite the terms, ghost the agreement, or pretend you misremembered the original deal. Whether in love, friendship, family, leadership, or loyalty - betrayal rarely announces itself. It just stops showing up the way it used to.
Carl Halford delivers a psychological scalpel wrapped in razor-dry wit. Each chapter unpacks a different kind of broken deal - the friend who disappeared, the partner who rewrote history, the parent who pivoted, the colleague who played dumb, or the leader who promised and forgot. This isn't therapy. It's tactical awareness.
Designed for both the betrayed and the betrayer, this book holds up a mirror - and a blueprint. Readers will walk away with strategy, language, validation, and the ability to never again fall for emotional amnesia or moral gaslighting.
You didn't go crazy. The deal changed.