Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, the second wedding anniversary was as separate

July 16, 2022 Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck They said “I do” to each other in a romantic ceremony in Georgia: two years later they spent their wedding anniversary apart, surrounded by rumors of an imminent divorce, which never really died down.

After the Fourth of July at a safe distance, little has changed. J.Lo. is still on vacation in the Hamptons, he is in California. The actress and singer was photographed while going to dinner with her son Max and an assistant at the Arthur & Sons restaurant in Bridgehampton. In the morning, she had instead been spotted with her manager, Benny Medina, while a few days earlier she had been with Violet, firstborn of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner.

A summer of almost exes, in short, in which few things add up, and in which the initial chatter that hypothesized a crisis has now become an unbearable ringing in the ears. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have not been seen together for over a month, they have put their love nest in Los Angeles up for sale (at 68 million dollars) and they seem to have reached the point of no return.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have publicly listed their Beverly Hills mansion

The couple had purchased the mega villa a year ago and now the dream house is publicly for sale. Is this the final sign of the crisis?

According to Page Six, which cites a source very close to the two, the marriage is said to have come to an end as early as last March; if that’s really the case, however, it makes you wonder what they’re waiting for to officially decree its end. Fans are still hoping. They hope that the Bennifers will find a way to leave their worries behind and finally smile together again. A happy ending that has never seemed so far away as it does right now. “Jenny has had enough and she has really tried, but it’s not getting better, it’s worse.”a source close to the star had revealed to Daily Mail last June. According to the insider, the blame would be mainly Affleck’s, defined “grumpy and negative”, so much so that he was compared to Oscar The Grouch, the Muppet from the TV show Sesame Street. Affleck apparently expected more from his union with Lopez: “She is very focused on her work and puts in a lot of effort,” had added an insider to Us Weekly, “He doesn’t agree with Jennifer’s lifestyle.” The actor reportedly felt somewhat “worn out” by the marriage. “The couple is on two completely different pages most of the time,” the insider continued, and one thing is for sure: «The honeymoon phase is over». Work would have caused friction at home too, with major communication problems, she prefers to deal with things straight away, he closes himself off.

Matt Damon alongside Ben Affleck, “to prevent him from falling back into alcoholism”

The actor of Invictus reportedly warned his friend before his marriage to Jennifer Lopez: “He advised him to focus on his work, not on J.Lo’s projects as he had already done twenty years ago.” Now that gossip is talking about a possible divorce, the two Oscar winners are closer than ever

Supporting the actor in this delicate moment is Matt Damon, a lifelong friend. The fear of those close to him is only one: they fear that he might start drinking again. Jennifer Lopez, on the other hand, has found an unexpected supporter in Jennifer Garner, Affleck’s ex-wife, who knows her fragility well. All that remains is to wait for developments, but nothing good seems to be on the horizon.

Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Lopez’s “Unexpected Ally” in the Crisis with Ben Affleck

The actor’s ex-wife has proved to be a confidant and friend to J.Lo in the last few weeks, the most difficult of her marriage to Affleck. The two actors, after all, were married for 13 years, and Garner knows well the ups and downs of the father of her children