Yep, that's what he was doing all those months, on the golf course, making those hundred or so calls to Amber, with the stripper along with some other girls. Yep, poor Scotty, just hasn't had a chance to grieve, being arrested that day in his golf clothes, bleached hair, 10,000.00, brother's passport etc(the same week the possible bodies of his wife and child washed ashore)Laci and Connor were positively identified. Yep, let's not forget the first gathering on NewYears, the candlight group, when family and friends gathered to support each other in the very first days---Scott stood far away from family that day, photographed laughing (now, anyone can laugh in an inopportune moment, but given hindsight now, it doesn't help). So, Scott didn't seem to want family support at the most immediate moment of crisis.
Yes, Scott would love to be sitting among family and friends---the question is, who's family and friends? With Scott, it looks like it would be flavor of the month, and he probably has aa wife he "lost" for every holiday of the year.