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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 83845" data-attributes="member: 33">You're right, I edited my post to "JR repeatedly reconciling with Sue Ellen".Sue Ellen believed that JR fathered her sister's child. Sue Ellen was a weak recovering alcoholic who JR deliberately tried to drive to drink. JR repeatedly tried to ruin her life and that of those close to her and she still kept going back to him. I see JR being like a lot of rich and powerful men who trade in their wives for a younger version. History is full of them. He wanted heirs and Sue Ellen wasn't producing them. He liked sex but Sue Ellen spent most of her time in her own room. Someone like JR wouldn't tolerate that when he could get many other willing women. Both JR and Sue Ellen repeatedly had many reasons to move on with their lives and could have had happiness with someone else but the writers thought it was believable that they would prefer to stay in the living hell of their marriage. I think it would have been far more realistic if they married other people before getting back together.</blockquote>