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Family thinks I'm going too far in the deen

What to do when your family is the average laymen Muslims who have taken the view point of "we know it's haram but everyone is doing it" in regards to things like music, not wearing hijab etc etc.

And you feel that is a pathetic excuse? I want to start become a more strict Muslim and obviously its not gonna be easy but subhanAllah, never knew that the very obstacle I would face is not non-Muslims but my very own Muslim family!

My mom thinks I'm going too far and she needs to stop me, my brother's advice was just "let her go as far as she wants and she'll realize she can't make it so she will come back."

I'm too young and weak, I just want to run away from the problem, I don't want to have to deal with my own MUSLIM family stopping me from my wish--to follow Quran and Sunnah almost to its entirety (or as much as I possibly can) I can't argue about this with them, as I usually cry when talking about serious stuff and this is about the most serious. I don't know what to do, I'm starting to feel like a stranger in my own family, like a revert almost. If I do eventually distance myself from them (at least religion wise) it will never be the same but I just don't have the heart to do it either.

Another thing I'm afraid of is that I don't want to leave them like this, I want them to have the same amount of faith that I have. I have no support from my family as almost every one in my extended family is the same way, as well as the majority from my native (Muslim) country.