If you want to be a professional writer, the first thing you have to do is separate critique of yourself from critique of your work. People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. No engineering company would sell code without some kind of evaluation process, followed by fixes to at least some of the major bugs that were found. And you might as well not begin that process if you're not ready to fix the bugs. Because if you're not willing to fix the problems, you're just wasting everyone's time by asking for critique.
Critiques are about the business side of writing.
If you're writing for only yourself, you don't need critiques. But if you want someone else to read what you wrote, you've entered a different world. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. And your primary reader is your editor. You are then working for others.