Week 11 - Hopkins Family issue
It really got me thinking when I read about the mini case study on Hopkins family issue.
This was the issue -
"For as long as he could remember, David Hopkins wanted to be a successful high school football coach. He even dreamed of joining the college ranks one day. In late 2000, after having achieved an enviable win-loss record at a smaller school, he was named as the head football coach at a large West Texas high school that had a long tradition of winning state championships.
On the same day, his wife filed for divorce. She cited Hopkins’s many days on the road as the primary reason for their separation, and announced that she and her four-year-old daughter were moving back to her East Texas hometown.
If you were Hopkins, what would you do? Ponder this question and briefly discuss your answer below."
If I was Hopkins I would evaluate my love & passion and see what's most important in my life. For me & my priorities, I put God, family & then work. I would go to her and talk with her and briefly explain to her that this is my passion and has been a dream of mine. I want you to have a fulfilling life and I want our 4-year-old daughter to have everything she could possibly want in this world. I know I'm on the road a lot and I just want to thank you for all the support you have given me thus far. This is a passion and dream of mine but you are a dream of mine as well & our daughter is the best thing that has ever happened to us and I don't want to lose you. I will quit my job and fulfill your needs more if that is what is needed for us to stay together. I will love and take care of you more & I want to always be there for you more. Just know that we came into this marriage knowing that we would have to make sacrifices and marriage is hard work. I want us to stay together but I respect and honor your decisions. I just want us to really think about our daughter in this circumstance as well. I want you both to be happy.
I feel like that's what I would do to try to save the marriage and if that doesn't work out I would stick to what he loves doing and what fulfills him. She knew going into the marriage what he wanted to become & the sacrifice that had to have been made. She doesn't want that anymore for the reason of him being gone all the time. If it's to save the marriage and keeping my daughter I would find another job that would make it so I'm not always on the road.
This was the issue -
"For as long as he could remember, David Hopkins wanted to be a successful high school football coach. He even dreamed of joining the college ranks one day. In late 2000, after having achieved an enviable win-loss record at a smaller school, he was named as the head football coach at a large West Texas high school that had a long tradition of winning state championships.
On the same day, his wife filed for divorce. She cited Hopkins’s many days on the road as the primary reason for their separation, and announced that she and her four-year-old daughter were moving back to her East Texas hometown.
If you were Hopkins, what would you do? Ponder this question and briefly discuss your answer below."
If I was Hopkins I would evaluate my love & passion and see what's most important in my life. For me & my priorities, I put God, family & then work. I would go to her and talk with her and briefly explain to her that this is my passion and has been a dream of mine. I want you to have a fulfilling life and I want our 4-year-old daughter to have everything she could possibly want in this world. I know I'm on the road a lot and I just want to thank you for all the support you have given me thus far. This is a passion and dream of mine but you are a dream of mine as well & our daughter is the best thing that has ever happened to us and I don't want to lose you. I will quit my job and fulfill your needs more if that is what is needed for us to stay together. I will love and take care of you more & I want to always be there for you more. Just know that we came into this marriage knowing that we would have to make sacrifices and marriage is hard work. I want us to stay together but I respect and honor your decisions. I just want us to really think about our daughter in this circumstance as well. I want you both to be happy.
I feel like that's what I would do to try to save the marriage and if that doesn't work out I would stick to what he loves doing and what fulfills him. She knew going into the marriage what he wanted to become & the sacrifice that had to have been made. She doesn't want that anymore for the reason of him being gone all the time. If it's to save the marriage and keeping my daughter I would find another job that would make it so I'm not always on the road.
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