This is no good

Poor Mike. In the last month the man has been innundated with more family values than he can handle.

First my mother came at him with her ungodly amount of expectations that she placed on him about participating with the my family functions and celebrations, etc...

To make matters worse, his brother caused some trouble this weekend and his parents went to visit him. His dad came back and snapped on him about not going up to see him and being sympathetic. It's all a bit more than the poor kid should have to carry. It's really not his fault that any of this happened nor is it his resposibility to clean up the mess. He tries to make nice with my family and they keep expecting mroe and more of him. The fact that he doesn't want to go tears them apart, but at the same time its not really his job to make them feel better about it. And he's been more that patient with his brother. I've only spent minimal amounts of time talking to him and he gets to bothering me. It's not fair...