And just like that, another love story for the ages has been decimated. It’s safe to say that regardless of how engaged you may or may not be in popular culture, we all had high hopes for J-Lo and Ben Affleck – sorry, J-Lo and Ben Affleck 2.0 , or Bennifer, as fans like to call them.
After all, this was a couple that defied everyone’s expectations by reuniting in 2021, almost 20 years after they first got together while filming early Noughties flop, Gigli . Theirs was a romance that signalled hope for millions , serving as proof that true love not only exists, but that it also withstands time, space, and various children and divorces. If you’re meant to be together, you will overcome any and all hurdles, no matter how long it takes.
Fate will find you...
and whatever other clichés you subscribe to. Or at least used to subscribe to. Because this week, it was revealed that Lopez had filed for divorce from Affleck after just under two years of marriage.
When rumours of their reconciliation first surfaced in 2021, the internet went into a spin unlike any other. The couple courted this, recreating famous photos of one another canoodling on a yacht, before tying the knot in a lavish ceremony to outdo all lavish ceremonies, which took place on Affleck’s 87-acre compound outside of Savannah, Georgia. There were gushing social media posts, and an even more gushing newsletter penned by Lopez: “When he saw me appear at the top of the stairs that moment it both made absolut.