Jennifer Lopez believed that she and Ben Affleck were doing a better job at making their relationship work when the pair took their second shot at love. The “Let’s Get Loud” singer, 55, spoke about how her rekindled romance with Affleck, 52, improved after their first brush with love just five months before they said “I do” in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022. While promoting her movie “Marry Me,” Lopez told The New York Times that both she and Affleck had learned a big lesson from their 2004 breakup.
The lesson? “To hold it sacred,” she said, referring to their relationship. “You have to do what feels good to you all the time.” “But at the same time,” she continued, “you learn from the past, you do things better the second time.
” “There’s a part of it that, yes, we’re together. But there’s a part of it that’s not, you know, being so open the way we were when we were so young and in love many years ago.” Striking an optimistic note, she added, “You can’t live life and think that things are just mistakes: I just messed up there, I messed up there.
No, it’s all lessons.” She explained, “It’s really what can you extrapolate from it that is going to help you grow and go to the next level of understanding yourself, finding yourself and being able to be at peace with your life, at peace with who you are.” Affleck echoed his future wife’s sentiments when speaking with The Wall Street Journal in 2021, shortly after they got back tog.