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[DaveK]

That's why one thing our group aims to do is to keep in contact, to make sure no one gets left out. At the same time, we try to keep things optional, so while we are encouraging and try our best to help people to feel motivated and confident we never pressure or force anyone to do anything they don't want to do.

There are some people who were in our group early on, but dropped out for any one of a number of different reasons. They never go unnoticed. That's one reason I exchange contact info with them and try to keep a group roster; if someone seems absent for a while I always try to contact them just to see if they are still interested, if something came up, etc.

That's the beauty of networking within a group; no one gets lost, so long as the planning and structure is done well enough.

Another benefit to groups is that if something DOES come up in a partners situation and one of the members can't participate for a while, then the other partner is left on their own, which can be a sucky situation to be in. In a group, if one person has to cancel on a study session, there will always be others in the group who can fill that spot, so a partner never has to feel like they've been ditched or left to struggle on their own. :)