During a recent podcast appearance, Chelsea Handler shared that she’s officially done going on vacation with her siblings’ spouses. The comedian explained that after 25 years of of going on vacations with her siblings, their spouses, and their kids, she is now setting a firm boundary: She will only travel with people she actually wants to travel with. While she thought the take would be “very relatable,” it was actually a pretty controversial one.
“I told my brothers and sisters this year that I’m done with their spouses,” Chelsea said on Olivia Attwood’s So Wrong It’s Right podcast. “I’m like: ‘I don’t need to go on vacation with your spouses anymore.'” Her reasoning? She “didn’t marry these people.”
Chelsea went on to say that she has “extended [her] generosity for 25 years,” and she has reached her limit at this point. “I’ve brought all of your children and all of your spouses on vacations, multiple vacations a year for 25 years,” she continued. “And now I want to vacation with the people that I want to vacation with, and they’re not your spouses.”
Some people could understand exactly what Chelsea meant. “Listen I love my siblings spouses but when it’s just us originals, we can really laugh about life,” one person commented on a TikTok clip from the podcast.
“Normalize siblings only,” another person agreed.
A third person even wished that their husband’s siblings thought more like Chelsea. “I would prefer it if my husband’s siblings excluded me more often,” the commenter wrote.
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However, others were not big fans of Chelsea’s take on family vacations. “That’s honestly awful,” one of them wrote. “yikes.”
A few people asserted that her siblings’ spouses are her family now, so she should treat them like family.
“If someone doesn’t want to hang out with my spouse, too bad,” a critic commented.
Another reason some people couldn’t relate? They’re actually really close with their siblings’ spouses. “I love my siblings/cousins’ spouses almost more than them,” one person pointed out.
At the same time, even some people who really appreciate their siblings’ spouses could understand Chelsea’s perspective.
“You can love them and like them but it’s still nice to do sibling time,” a fan wrote. “Nothing wrong with that.”
