Jennifer Lopez Was Reportedly Expecting This One Thing From Ben Affleck This Summer
It’s been a single-girl summer for Jennifer Lopez, but that doesn’t seem to be what she was hoping for from her estranged husband, Ben Affleck. While she spent her summer in the Hamptons on the East Coast, the 51-year-old actor was busy buying a $20.5 million home in the Pacific Palisades on the West Coast. Lopez apparently thought he might have made more of an effort to spend time with her even though they were separated.
The former dynamic duo didn’t seem to be on the same page while they were married, nor were they seeing eye to eye while they were apart. “It’s just depressing that Ben couldn’t find the time or inclination to be there and support Jennifer,” a source told In Touch Weekly. “She would have welcomed it.” The Oscar winner not only missed his wife’s Bridgerton-themed 55th birthday, but he also wasn’t around for their July 16 second wedding anniversary. It just feels like he’s done with their relationship.
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The divorce filing might be just days away, too. According to the Daily Mail, the court documents “are finalized, but not yet turned in.” The source noted that the former couple is just “waiting for the right time to drop them” even though “they finalized the divorce papers with her a month ago.” Fans should expect a “joint statement that will say how they have much love for each other and how they fought to make it work but couldn’t.” The second insider added, “Honestly, in the end, they could not come to a compromise. What they had before is gone and they have both accepted it.”
Lopez seems to be the one who was holding out hope that Affleck would come around and realize they were meant to be together. “Jennifer’s been putting on a brave face through it all,” the In Touch Weekly source said. “She never expected to be spending her summer alone. This isn’t where she thought she’d be at this point in her life.” The writing was on the wall the moment viewers watched how different their approaches were to their marriage, and their lives, in general, in her Amazon Prime documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
“Getting back together, I said, ‘Listen, one of the things I don’t want is a relationship on social media,'” Affleck explained. “And then I sort of realized it’s not a fair thing to ask. It’s sort of like you’re gonna marry a boat captain and you go, ‘Well, I don’t like the water.’ We’re just two people with kind of different approaches trying to learn to compromise.”
Perhaps Affleck should have listened to his inner voice because his strong privacy boundaries conflicted with Lopez’s desire to be in the public eye. They each needed different things and there was no middle ground.
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