New Family

[kateee]

I am a member of a relatively new family line. My big big was part of a HUGE 'family', the turtle family, and she herself had four littles and like six grandlittles. So since the turtle family was so large, my big big chose to branch off into the peacock family. It wasn't a matter of not liking her own family anymore, it was because said family was so large that it was basically the entire chapter (our ceiling is set at 35 girls.) Since then, the turtle family has almost died off, leaving one member before big/little this year. We joked that we were all becoming turtles to keep them going! :P
In this instance, at the time branching off into a new family line seemed like a great idea at a time. The turtle family was waaayyy to big, and big big had a large enough branch to form her own family. However, in retrospect, this year we almost rejoined the turtle family because they were too small.
I don't think there is really any reason to start a new family line unless yours is just way too big. *shrugs* Just speaking from a semi-personal experience here.

[December190]

More information: My sorority does "families" so like my twin, big, g big, gg big and all my littles are one family and we have a name and there are 4 families in the sorority.

My big is now an alum and I am not close with the head of my family or a majority of them. I've recently become really unhappy with a lot of decisions that the chapter has made and I've lost a lot of my passion and drive for my sorority, which is sad because last semester I lived and breathed this sisterhood.

This isn't about drama or forcing anyone to choose, that's not my style, and I'm not going to be a brat about it. This isn't a disrespectful tantrum thing. This is just something that I think will revive my interest in my chapter and I think the girls who want to join this new family are really excited and I'm excited.

It's not a negative thing. I was just wondering if anyone had advice or stories to share.

[Old_Row]

Originally Posted by December190

More information: My sorority does "families" so like my twin, big, g big, gg big and all my littles are one family and we have a name and there are 4 families in the sorority.

My big is now an alum and I am not close with the head of my family or a majority of them. I've recently become really unhappy with a lot of decisions that the chapter has made and I've lost a lot of my passion and drive for my sorority, which is sad because last semester I lived and breathed this sisterhood.

This isn't about drama or forcing anyone to choose, that's not my style, and I'm not going to be a brat about it. This isn't a disrespectful tantrum thing. This is just something that I think will revive my interest in my chapter and I think the girls who want to join this new family are really excited and I'm excited.

It's not a negative thing. I was just wondering if anyone had advice or stories to share.

I am seeing an awful lot of "I" in those reasons. Your earlier posts said you rushed as a junior last fall so that means you'll be leaving soon. You've already talked to other girls about taking them into a new family before even finding out how or if you can do it. It sounds to me like you're set to cause a lot of unnecessary drama even if that is not your intention, just because your big went early alumna and now you aren't happy.