Spending the Holidays with Partners and Families … Or Not?

Girls Gotta Eat

Ashley Hesseltine and Rayna Greenberg

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.5 • 29.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 86 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

'Tis the season to talk about peace, love…and drama. We discuss the dynamics of spending the holidays with family when you're in a relationship, how to navigate the in-laws, what most couples are doing (and not doing), and our controversial opinion on spending every holiday with your partner. We also talk about family estrangement, our feelings on "Life is too short to fight with your family," and how to work through some of these hard situations. Then we share some of our listeners' hilarious/traumatic holiday experiences with partners' families that truly shocked us. And before we get into the topic, we're debating two polarizing shower behaviors, and Rayna has a big announcement! Enjoy! Follow us on Instagram @girlsgottaeatpodcast, Ashley @ashhess, and Rayna @rayna.greenberg. Visit girlsgottaeat.com for more. Thank you to our partners this week: Aura Frames: Get $35 off the bestselling Carver Mat frame at https://auraframes.com with code GGE. Article: Head to https://article.com for a beautiful new sofa, dining table, or bed. Skims: Shop our favorite pajamas at skims.com. Rocket Money: Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster at https://rocketmoney.com/gge. Storyworth: Get $10 off or more at https://storyworth.com/gge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we are talking about spending the holidays with partners and family.
0:06.8	Or not.
0:07.7	Or not.
0:26.4	This podcast is a dear media production.
0:27.9	Hi guys.
0:30.5	Welcome back to another episode of Girls Gotta Eat.
0:32.9	We are recording on a Friday after noon.
0:35.5	Like 4 p.m. on a Friday, like do we even own our own business?
0:37.3	Like who made us come here? We made this decision together. But then I was like, let's get drinks after. Hang out socially, like you always want to do. You never asked me to hang out. We're probably doing it. So I will say, I am excited to hang out with you, but I have just been wanting to go to the place that's, there's a great place right next door to our studio.
0:55.3	We don't utilize it enough. It is stunning. The drinks are great. The food's great because everywhere in LA, the food is great. And so I'm excited to just bob over there. We don't go there enough. That should be our spot. We used to hang out after we recorded. We couldn't get enough of each other in the beginning of our relationship. We go out to dinner.
1:10.2	First three months.
1:11.1	We got to dinner.
1:12.3	The first years and years.
1:14.1	We hung out a lot. We went out to dinner every night after we recorded it Ozatar. I love to see people. I act like you don't want this. Start up. Everybody wants this life. I love to see people start doing a podcast when it's, I mean this genuinely.
1:29.3	I don't want to sound condescending. When people start a podcast, like we have friends that are doing
1:33.0	one right now and they're like drinking and it's just so loose. Like I love that energy and then
1:39.4	one day it becomes your business and you're like, I guess we shouldn't drink on the job,
1:43.1	but also you can. You could do anything. I think it just sounded cute and you're like, I guess we shouldn't drink on the job, but also you
1:44.3	can. You could do anything. I think it just, it sounded cute and funny to be like be drunk when we
1:49.1	recorded narrator. Raina was not cute and funny when she was drinking. Yeah. I was like, no one can
1:54.4	ever tell when I drank. Everyone's like, is she speaking words? Is that even English?
2:00.7	One drink.
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