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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 208334" data-attributes="member: 102">After watching again, I find Ray and Jenna to be very well suited for each other. The left the show fairly early after their marriage,&nbsp; so we didn&#039;t get to see what happened, but that was a marriage with great potential. Ray was a rancher and Jenna grew up on a ranch. What Ray wanted more than anything was a family and that&#039;s what Jenna valued most too. They had the foundation for a successful marriage.Ray wasn&#039;t highly educated, but he had common sense. He repeatedly said, in the days when Dona wanted to marry him: The cowboy and the politician, it just doesn&#039;t mix. He turned out to be right and should have trusted his gut instinct.I recall that Donna once went to Ewing Oil to talk to Jock about trying to convince Ray to marry her. Jock told her he&#039;d never even gotten involved in his own sons&#039; marriage decisions, so he couldn&#039;t do that with Ray (this as before he knew Ray was his son). Donna kept emphasizing that she and Ray loved each other and Jock wisely replied: I believe you do, but a successful marriage is based on a much more stable foundation than just that. He hit the nail on the head.They just didn&#039;t have the things in common they would need for a successful marriage. I don&#039;t know that they had anything meaningful in common. The things in life that want the most to them were quite different. For Ray it was family and for Donna it was the spotlight, getting her name known, being influential - all things which didn&#039;t matter a bit to Ray. Still, they gave it a good try and did have some happy times together before Dona finally left Ray.It would have been much more fair for Donna to stay in the state of Texas so that since she apparently assumed showed get custody of their child, then at least Ray would get to visit his child. She could have gotten involved in local politics - possibly mayor or a member of the city council. She could have gone to Austin and worked in state politics. For Donna, only the very biggest stage would be enough and so it just had to be Washington DC. If Ray would be thousands of miles from his kid, too bad. It&#039;s all about Donna. It usually was.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 208334, member: 102"] After watching again, I find Ray and Jenna to be very well suited for each other. The left the show fairly early after their marriage, so we didn't get to see what happened, but that was a marriage with great potential. Ray was a rancher and Jenna grew up on a ranch. What Ray wanted more than anything was a family and that's what Jenna valued most too. They had the foundation for a successful marriage. Ray wasn't highly educated, but he had common sense. He repeatedly said, in the days when Dona wanted to marry him: The cowboy and the politician, it just doesn't mix. He turned out to be right and should have trusted his gut instinct. I recall that Donna once went to Ewing Oil to talk to Jock about trying to convince Ray to marry her. Jock told her he'd never even gotten involved in his own sons' marriage decisions, so he couldn't do that with Ray (this as before he knew Ray was his son). Donna kept emphasizing that she and Ray loved each other and Jock wisely replied: I believe you do, but a successful marriage is based on a much more stable foundation than just that. He hit the nail on the head. They just didn't have the things in common they would need for a successful marriage. I don't know that they had anything meaningful in common. The things in life that want the most to them were quite different. For Ray it was family and for Donna it was the spotlight, getting her name known, being influential - all things which didn't matter a bit to Ray. Still, they gave it a good try and did have some happy times together before Dona finally left Ray. It would have been much more fair for Donna to stay in the state of Texas so that since she apparently assumed showed get custody of their child, then at least Ray would get to visit his child. She could have gotten involved in local politics - possibly mayor or a member of the city council. She could have gone to Austin and worked in state politics. For Donna, only the very biggest stage would be enough and so it just had to be Washington DC. If Ray would be thousands of miles from his kid, too bad. It's all about Donna. It usually was. [/QUOTE]

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