Hi there:
So... who cares what your family thinks? I know that might come across as a little harsh, but it's an important question.. who the hell cares what they think? Are they particularly brilliant, wise, enlightened, happy, mature??? I'm sitting in serious doubt on that one.
Let me project for a minute... your family is rather immature, quite confused, not terribly happy, poorly adjusted to the world they live in... in short... miserable... and I am making an effort to be polite here. Are they not rather screwy? Is that true? Once again, I hallucinate that I am reasonably accurate, but hey, that's nothing compared to what you are hallucinating, i.e. that their opinions of you matter. Sheesh.... sounds like a waste of a life to me.
Love ya, Jed.