I have been a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) now for more than four years. I love the organization. Between the learning activities, socials and friendships I’ve made, the group has been beneficial to me personally and professionally.
One of the benefits of being in EO is that you get involved with a forum group. This is a group of eight to ten people who are business owners who talk about their business, personal and their family life with other business owners.
During the last four years, I have been involved in one forum group. Throughout that time, we lost a member here and there. We started with nine and quickly dropped down to seven. Then every few months we lost someone else and then there were four (including me).
For several months we have tried to recruit like minded people but had no luck. After the last forum meeting, we welcomed two new people who ended up dropping out quickly after that. That was our clue to end it.
“I don’t want to break up,” I told one of my forum mates.
“It’s been going down a long time and I think we should move on,” he said.
I was sad. I felt like I was breaking up with people that I really cared about. I was breaking up with intimate friends who I felt were there for me and now, they won’t be.
We decided that our holiday party was our last hurrah. The four of us took our spouses and went out to dinner. It was quite lovely. But there was a sense of ending that I never felt before. We toasted to our accomplishments and to the year that past and I wondered if I will ever have this type of intimacy with another Forum group.
The next night, the EO NY Chapter had their holiday party. I saw two of my forum mates there. One of them said to me, “So I guess this is it. It’s official. We’re breaking up.”
“Our group may be breaking up,” I said, “but I don’t think I ever want to break up our friendship.”
I left the party with a smile on my face.
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