Oooo another posting

Ok this is a more serious question this time.
When I decided that I was going to marry my darling wife, I first told my brother and his girlfriend who although were completely shocked were initially supportive (at least openly). The next person I told was my mum, basically cause I knew she could handle it and wouldn't go too nuts when I told her.

She was really excellent about it all and said if it's what I wanted then she would support me completely. Saying that she was worried that I may get hurt.
I have to tell you at this point that I was still living at home with my parents at that time and I didn't have a proper full time job. So she would have to move into my 3 metre by 3 metre room! Which wasn't really big enough for me, let alone two people.
Ok, back to the point, I finally told my dad and my brother. My dad went nuts....He was concerned that he would be kicked out of his house along with all of us having more people than we were aloud sleeping under the same roof and said that he wouldn't do anything to find out whether he had a valid arguement. So I wrote a letter to the council to asked them what our rights were and how many people were aloud to live in the house, and I got my dad to begrudgingly sign it.
After a couple of weeks we got a letter back saying that we could have up to 8 people living under the same roof and as long as they were all related in some way there would be no problem at all.
Let me say that I love my dad, but he can be the most miserable, complaining, cynical and negative person in the world at times. He used to take every oppotunity to take little digs at us both about how much he was paying out a month for various bills, yet when we offered to pay more toward them he rejected the offers. Elle and I just came to mutural decision that he enjoyed moaning about everything.
Whereas my mum and my sister have been nothing but supportive in every way and have taken time out of their way to help us.
Have your relatives and friends behaved in a similar way (good or bad) and have they stuck by you no matter what?