...Attacking me for my chosen use of time (unless one's already paying for it) is something that only my immediate blood family has ever gotten away with. And since moving out, they can't either. Time is precious - nobody will ever get another moment just like this one. People who presume to dictate its use to me without exceptionally good reasons are jumping up and down on one of my incoherent rage buttons.

I get the impression that you do contract work, though, so maybe things are different in that world?