She filed without lawyers so clearly there is an understanding between two to not make it about money. |
Garner was a rebound from Jennifer Lope. They met in late 2003 on the set of Daredevil right after Ben dumped Jennifer Lopez and although some say Ben and Lopez were working things out/still together but just no longer engaged at this juncture. Garner left her Alias co star Vartan for Affleck in 2004, got pregnant with Violet in early 2005, married Ben in mid-2005, Violet is born early December. There are even some that say Violet is vartan’s daughter but I don’t believe this. The point is all 3 have a history of rebounds and cheating especially Affleck and Jennifer Lopez who also met Affleck on the set of Gigli in December 2001 when she was a newlywed married Sept 29, 2001 to her backup dancer Cris Judd. Cris was given a nice divorce settlement to go away silently in May 2002. Lopez and Affleck went public the same week |
If it isn’t about money, why would she divorce on the 2 year anniversary date (August 20th)? It seems she was meeting a deadline given to her by her lawyer |
This all happened literally decades ago. People mature and grow up, some later than others, but most all of them do by this time of life. |
Whatever is going on here had nothing to do with a college drop off ![]() |
Is he drunk? Garner is also just as in love as Lopez when it comes to Ben. I guess she is no longer with the attorney and business man John. He seemed like such a great guy. She’s getting sucked in by Bens dysfunction again. |
What is that in front of them? It looks like a dog jumped into the car onto both of their laps and they are laughing and jumping back from it. Not canoodling. It’s a pretty bad photo. I would guess it is that standard “I’m taking the dog to college with me!” Joke from the departing kid. I expect mine to try to put our dog into the luggage. |
Ben is a narcissist and a love bomber. He sees women in terms of "winning" them. Once he wins them, he moves on to the next target. Ben seeks the sexy vixen type that gets lots of attention. I don't think garner is still in love with him, but rather a good exwife, friend and and coparent to Ben; likely to her own determent. |
That’s probably right. The only issue I can maybe see if dividing up expenses (not income) — I think they each have too much pride to want a cut of each other’s income but Ben may feel some irritation at taking an equal share in losses/expenses for things that he affirmatively didn’t want, like the documentary and the showy wedding and maybe the house. Especially if all that showy stuff was the reason for the breakup. I could see there being some negotiation about how to handle things like that. Hopefully they’ll have a good mediator. Even though she filed pro se they must have lawyers behind the scenes — even an “easy” divorce will be complicated with tax inpolicatikns. They must have tons in capital gains and maybe issues with deemed ownership over companies under IRS control group regs etc etc. I don’t think it’s like a “you take the car, I take the dog and microwave” divorce for the normals. |
Maybe that was the problem. They idealized "the one that got away" and the reality didn't live up to the dream. |
Yeah, I think their finances are pretty complicated and I could see each of them having certain gripes: her more significant expenditure of funds plus his not wanting the majority of that stuff she's putting him on the hook for. Also, she's known to be a good businesswoman and frugal in certain respects (ironic, I know). I could see her wanting the financial piece worked out very meticulously. |
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That is NOT their anniversary date. They were legally married in July of 2022. August 20 was when they had their big ceremony, but they were already married at that point. |
Why do you feel the need to use chatGPT when responding to posts here? |
+1 Lopez filed on the date of their second ceremony. She probably did it intentionally but everyone can see that that date means nothing to Ben. He will soon forget about it like it never happened. |