Friends or foe's?

Has anyone ever noticed that the people closest to you are usually the first to turn on you, or criticize you? Like your best friend, of the same faith or not, who knows everything about you, knows how important your faith is to you and knows what you stand for and why? Then when you are doing what is right in certain situations, they give you a hard time, or they make fun of you for it. How many of those times is it because there is another friend there? Like they are trying to show off for that other person, even if it means turning on you. But when it is just you two, they have no problems with your beleifs, or the things you do because of them. Family members also have a tendency to do this. Maybe your parents brought you up as a Catholic because that is what their parents did, not because it was in your best interest. Maybe they have a very weak faith due to poor catachesis, or they see the church as being outdated or just a Christmas, and Easter event. Maybe when you try to do things to better your realtionship with Christ, or maybe ask to pray or go to Mass together they get defensive, or maybe just completely silly things come in between your realtionship with them and they dont even seem to care. When things like this happen, I beleive Christ is presenting us with a beautiful gift. He is giving us a chance to be a witness. Not only is it a gift, but he is asking us to do something for him. Stand up for him, bring his good news of salvation to all the ends of the earth, no matter if you start in your circle of friends, or in your own home. Just the chance to do something for Jesus is awesome. If in doing this, we suffer, either due to loss of friends or what have you, the sufferings we endure are great ways to build and strengthen our relationship with God. Offer those sufferings up, and unite them with the sufferings of Christ, and you will see the beauty in living your faith no matter what the cost.