Yes, clients can eat up so much time and energy. It's easy to waste emotion on communication vs. putting it into the music. I've spent so much time dealing with how I am going to reply to a client asking for the most absurd time sucking things that were outside of our agreement (which happens all the time) that I decided to just let that part of the gig go. I just had to communicate to the client how they can finish the project (this was past the ending) with a different mixer and I sent them the actual session files.

Thanks for the post, you've been upvoted!