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Tonight Doug decided to tell off my brother. Lovely. And of course, my brother told my parents and now it is all a big mess. Well, my mom talked to me a few hours ago and said that everything was okay and that they weren't mad at Doug. Then my dad just called me and tried to get me to tell him what was going on. I don't feel like it is my place. It was between Doug and Brandon and I want to stay as far away from that as possible. I know that won't happen though. It all started with us going over to my parents' house to swim tonight. I practically had to twist Doug's arm to get him to go anyway and then just as we got there my brother pulled up. Well, I hadn't seen him and had already started shutting the garage door. So when my brother comes in he starts in about us shutting the door and how rude it is and how we are stupid. In my brother's world, he was kidding, in Doug's world he was insulting us once again. He's always insulting us. Usually telling me that I have put on weight or I look fat or something and the same with Doug. Most of the time I try to "tease" back about his lack of hair. The first time he came to our house (we were giving him a bed) he told me that my house smelled bad. When I asked him what it was, he said it smelled "old." Seriously, opinions that you can keep to yourself, right? Anyhow, Doug couldn't take it this time and he started calling Brandon names. And Brandon called him names back, so he wasn't completely innocent. Then he tried to get me involved by telling me to take my boyfriend and leave. We didn't leave. We went ahead and went swimming and Brandon called mom & dad. So my mom calls and I tell her that she has to talk to Doug, but she doesn't want to because she wants an impartial opinion of what happened. That's not even possible. I defended Doug and told her that he said all the things I didn't have the nerve to say. We left shortly after that. On the way home I told Doug that he put me in a bad position and he said he knew that, but still didn't regret his actions. So now I don't know what to do. I'm not in the mood to make up with my brother, but I don't want to be at odds with my parents either. My brother really can be a jerk (for lack of a term that doesn't trip the internet filter). And my dad has always been very much into the "we all should get along" kind of thing. I just don't know if that is possible. I feel like I'm having to choose between Doug and my family and I don't like this feeling at all.