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Originally posted by miss priss
have any of you been in a situation where you have had to make choice decisions about choosing your non-greek member friends over your ls's? Also, has any of your friendships split because you went AKA and your friend went DST, ZPhiB, or SGRho,etc...?
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My best friend and maid of honor my wedding is a dynamic lady of
Delta...
My MIL is a fine lady of
Zeta
The rest of my close friends are my sorors.
In some respects, there are private organizational information that I do not want to know because it is all understood between the D4 Sororities that we do not need to know each others rituals down to what each other's symbols exactly mean. IMHO, it is more important to me to love and respect what my Sorority's ritualistic symbolic nature is because that is the Sorority I choose for myself...
So in so many words, I am still friends with those who have chosen Sororities outside of mine. And when I was single, I attended many of their parties when I was not a member and had plenty of fun...
Here's a question for you all:
What about significant others who are not greek or have yet to be greek or have issues with greeks? How do you all deal with that?
Since we are waaaayyyy out of college, the collegiate scene is not in my purview... But, Mr. AKA_Monet is not greek. At one time, long ago, he wanted to be a part of BGLO. But now, he is a professional and has little time (and $$$) to devote to joining at the grad level... (Let's leave it at that...)
So he has a few issues with me being an AKA... Why do I spend so much time with my sorors and all these activities... Yada, yada...
However, he said something to me the other day that made my jaw drop. He said, "I love you because you do not give up on your sorors..."
Aside from the "Awwww, Hunny" and kisses, apparently, he has been watching me spend hours on the weekend while at a Sorority meeting, sometimes frazzled to a frit, yet, I just have not dropped my service to AKA. Because you have to understand, he has little concept of the pledge I made so long ago--'cuz he never made one himself...
So, in so many ways, greek devotion, especially for BGLO's (because that's what I know), is not a concept for those outside of the system--moreso when you are waaaayyyy out of college...