Inside Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s Divorce: The Truth From Friends of the Ex-Couple
The Bennifer 2.0 fairy tale officially ended on August 20, when Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck—on their second wedding anniversary—also asking to return to her maiden name: after the wedding she had taken her husband’s name, now she wants to be Jennifer Lynn Lopez again. A move with which the pop star seems to want to quickly erase the actor from her life. J. Lo cited “irreconcilable differences” with Affleck as the reason for the divorce. Without adding any further details, however. Rivers of ink have been spilled over the alleged reasons for the breakup in recent days. Now People, in an attempt to clarify the situation, has consulted friends of the former spouses. According to them, the couple split for a combination of reasons. First of all, the sources explain, the two—who had already split up in 2004 just before getting married—have “opposite personalities”: “She is extroverted and sociable, he is closed and reserved.”.
And in fact, the first problems would have emerged during the honeymoon in Italy precisely because the actor “couldn’t stand the obsessive attention of the media and social media that he found himself with after the wedding with Lopez.” It even seems that Affleck, intolerant of the paparazzi who followed the couple everywhere, “barely spoke to his wife” during the honeymoon. Ben and Jen’s friends also suggest that the former couple didn’t last long because at the beginning they got caught up in the excitement of the reunion: after almost twenty years apart, after other loves and other marriages, fate, surprisingly, in 2021, rekindled the spark from which Bennifer 2.0 was born. “Who wouldn’t have thrown themselves into something like that? They were two people in love with love. They found each other in 2021; they got married in 2022. It all happened very quickly.”.
And over time, Affleck would have revealed himself to be a very different man than he had seemed at the beginning of the reunion with Lopez: «Jennifer, during their marriage, spent time and energy to make sure Ben was happy and had everything he needed. She took care of him as if he were a child. However, the star would not have been able to keep «his moody and dark side» at bay: «Ben is prone to strong mood swings, with big highs and big lows. And he does not realize how much his bad mood damages the people around him. The actor, according to friends of the former couple, «has never been able to handle stress well»: «When he is relaxed and in a positive mood, it is wonderful to be with him. But more often, even because of silly things, he is angry or frustrated. It is definitely not fun to be with him when he is full of negativity. Especially for Jennifer, who is made of completely different stuff: “She still loves life and is grateful for everything.” In the end, Lopez, exasperated, asked for a divorce (also because Ben, unlike her, “didn’t lift a finger to save the marriage “). But this decision, according to eople‘s sources, “broke her heart.”
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