Why Did Jennifer Garner And Ben Affleck End Their Marriage After 10 Years?

The ’13 Going On 30′ actress Jennifer Garner and ‘Gone Girl‘ actor Ben Affleck made their relationship public in October of 2004 at the Boston Red Sox Game. The couple had kept their relationship private from the eyes of the media during their early years. Even their wedding in 2005 was only attended by two other people, Victor Garber who officiated the ceremony, and his husband.

The couple had smooth sailing for about 10 years, after which they announced that they were getting a divorce. They separated in agreement and understanding, and with the decision to co-parent their three children. The divorce was filed in 2017 and they finalized their separation a year later. There were a lot of rumors about why the couple had discarded their marriage. So, what actually happened?

Jennifer Garner And Ben Affleck On Going Their Separate Ways

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck had one of the best fairytale romances in Hollywood and it shocked the world to hear about their separation after 10 years. There were so many rumors, at the onset of their divorce including Affleck’s affair with the family nanny Christine Ouzounian. But these allegations were turned down by Garner.

She had talked about her marriage and split to Vanity Fair in 2016: “He’s the love of my life. What am I going to do about that? He’s the most brilliant person in any room, the most charismatic, the most generous. He’s just a complicated guy. I always say, when his sun shines on you, you feel it. But when the sun is shining elsewhere, it’s cold. He can cast quite a shadow.” While Ben Affleck spoke about his divorce on ‘The Howard Stern Show‘ in December 2021. He described that he felt ‘trapped‘ and ‘not happy‘ in the marriage with Garner and that they had grown apart over the years.

The Newlyweds JLo And Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez had their love story’s beginning long back in 2002. Though they were engaged and marriage had been announced, the relationship ended before they walked down the aisle due to intense media scrutiny. But they find their way back to each other in 2021.

The couple got officially engaged in April 2022 and finally became husband and wife on July 16, 2022. They are now enjoying a blissful honeymoon phase.