Mina Starsiak Hawk and Steve Hawk have been married for almost a decade, but she admitted, "Every conversation around Steve's family is so loaded for him, and therefore loaded for me, because I care so much about making sure he's feeling loved on the holidays because he has so fewer people that are his core group that thought he was the world, that he was everything." Steve has lost three family members, his mother, father, and sister, all within the past five years.

The former "Good Bones" host confessed that her desire for the season is to visit everyone but also keep the holidays pleasant for them while maintaining their boundaries. Keeping all of these things in mind, she happily signed up for her sister's event and even ordered the pajamas, only to have Steve announce in late November that the family was invited to his Grandma's home on Christmas Eve. "I wasn't prepared for that," Mina admitted. A conversation ensued in which both Steve and Mina made valid points, but a decision never came. Until they brought it up with their therapist.

According to Mina, she told the couple to quit "playing this game of ping-pong," and stop thinking "in a perfect world ... " noting that they "are living in the perfect world," advising them to speak thoughtfully but know that these choices aren't that major. In the end, Mina said they "landed on compromising and trying our best to do both."