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Having done a bit a of freelancing, to me it just sound that at some point in that project you should just have cut your loss and move out of it.

Being a freelancer you get 2 big advantages, you can choose when you take holidays, and you can choose what project you want to work on (it seems to me you failed at taking advantages of either one). Maybe you should have been more direct and say I'm going to take a week off and your project will wait.

What you describe look to me as a typical inexperienced freelancer (don't take it the wrong way, we are all inexperienced when we start) agreeing on deadlines that can't be done, without a good team, and without taking the steps to get a better communication around this company, (your were the lead if I am not mistaken).

You have a lot to think about, a lot to learn from it, try to think at each point of failure and what you would have do different!

But I will agree with the some of the guys here, since this post clearly put you in a bad light, I would not have post it, I would personally remove it.