Expectations of the family, yes, we all probably get that. When we know something is very important, and it becomes a major issue in our life, the family doesn't always like it, but we know it's important. Which family are we talking about? You've got a blood family and you've now got a Dhamma family. Sometimes the blood family wants a certain thing, but we know it's not right, for ourselves inside, we know that our Dhamma family would say no, that isn't right. We've got two families now that we're Dhamma practitioners. So we have to look at what people demand of us, and we have to look at these demands carefully.
When we die, neither one of our families are going to die with us. We're going to die with our own thoughts, we're going to die with our own regrets or die with our own contentment. If we go against our deep deep-rooted major drives, so to speak, especially in meditation, the drive to try to become a good kind wise person, if we go against that and then we die, we're going to have regret.
If somebody's wanting us to go our drinking with them, pressuring us to go to movies we don't want to see, be more ambitious, have "normal" friends or be more normal whatever, yet if that's not what we really want, we need to remember we are the owners of our own Kamma. And then if we don't give in to their pressure, we will die without regrets.
So those are things to always keep in mind when you're getting pressured by the expectations of your family, consider that you've got two families, and consider how you would like to die. If you follow along with their pressure and you do what they say, are you going to die peacefully or not? If you resist their pressure and you die, are you going to die peacefully or not? That's important to think about.