I liked Jug, but Natalie wasn't his child and rightly, Beth was consumed with Aruba and finding out what happened to her child. I think at some point Jug wanted a wife and Beth to put this behind her. She will never put it behind her.
Oh, and they are both Southerners... he in GA and Beth in AL... and both have one surviving son.
John’s not a Southerner. He still lives in Michigan, afaik.