Pregnant Sorority Member

[jenidallas]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

1. She drops out of school and makes up a story that she has to go take care of her terminally ill grandmother.
2. Despite your best efforts to stay in touch, she's suddenly gone gone gone. No one can reach her.
3. She returns the next year, and somehow she's "different" but you can't exactly explain why. She's a little heavier and feels the need to talk about her grandmother's southern cooking and how she made biscuits every night, even though she was TERMINALLY ILL.

Five years after graduation you all get together for your first "reunion". She doesn't show up, but one of your chapter sisters finally breaks out the story after a late night of revelry, drinking, and stories about how much fun it was in college....yep, in case y'all didn't know what happened, she was PREGNANT and so and so was the father and he never offered to marry her.

Welcome to 1968. Happened in countless houses on campuses everywhere, and it happened a lot in the South. Happened to my big sis! Except she got the boy to marry her. Last I heard they were still married.

Hell, welcome to the early 90s in Texas. We had this happen at least once a year at my house with some variation. It happened to my little sis shortly after initiation. It happened to my recently pledged rush crush the following year. And I saw several variations of it play out across all four years.

To me, how a house handles the unexpected says volumes about how they will treat a sister on an average day. Not that I'd encourage adversity for adversity's sake, but life happens. I don't remember any disclaimer that the bonds of sisterhood were only valid while life is peaches and cream. But be thoughtful and classy and discrete as yo do what will best support that sister during what is no doubt a difficult time for her.