When Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck announced their reunion after 17 years apart, many saw it as proof that fairytale romances can come true. But Bennifer have called it quits for the second time, with Lopez filing for divorce on August 20, their second wedding anniversary. But it is possible to reunite with an ex, and make the relationship stick.
Tre and Victoria Samuels with daughter Silas. Credit: Jason South Victoria Samuels was 17 when she met her now husband, Trè Samuels. “We like to call ourselves each other’s childhood high school sweethearts,” the 26-year-old social media influencer and co-host of the podcast Tori and Mine, says.
The pair dated for around a year, while Trè, a musician, was establishing a career overseas, but broke it off amicably. “We were just young and a bit immature, and we took each other for granted,” recounts Samuels. Five years passed, with each of them working on their careers and dating other people, until one day they realised they were both single.
Not long afterwards, Trè returned from the United States and, as Samuels puts it, “from then it was just full force ...
we both knew instantly.” The pair married in July 2022, and together have a one-year-old daughter, Silas, with another due in September. Samuels says their years apart played an important role in the relationship they have today.
“We are so happy that we had that time apart because during that time, we both had some good experiences and bad experiences. We.