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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustard" data-source="post: 388781" data-attributes="member: 46">It's pretty obvious where J.R. got his bad side from. The ruthless business of Ewing Oil was everything to J.R. and he never found any similar satisfaction away from that, beyond the chase after a woman (which in itself was its own competition). Jock's upbringing was a very different one to J.R.'s, i.e. Jock had a working class upbringing and he became rich during the early oil wildcatters in Texas. J.R. was out in the oil fields as a small child with his dad.Could J.R. have coped with someone like Miss Ellie, Pam or Donna as his wife? I doubt it. It might have been the making of him, on the other hand, if it could work somehow. He treated Sue Ellen bad most of the time, made worse by the fact that she was brought up to expect love from a husband, but J.R.'s treatment of Sue Ellen just made her cynical and resentful.Sue Ellen didn't want Clayton that way. That's it. They have to get on with their lives.</blockquote>