Well I will offer another way to look at this specific call.
You had an established practice of calling at a certain time. You didn't do that for this call, and you didn't call to explain. Look at it from their point of view: How would you have felt? They could reasonably have felt stood up.
Their harangues were of course unjustified, but I wonder if you could have short circuited all of that by simply apologizing for not being there for the regular call.
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Now I wish I hadn't given them so much freedom to deliver their monologue unhindered.
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Exactly.
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As usual they have spoilt my weekend by laying such a huge guilt trip on me.
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I wonder who is more responsible for disrupting the weekend: them for delivering the monologues or you for allowing the monologues.