Ben Affleck Makes Rare Comment About Relationships After Jennifer Lopez Divorce (2025)

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Ben Affleck Makes Rare Comment About Relationships After Jennifer Lopez Divorce

Ben Affleck is learning to put himself out there again.

Three months after the Oscar winner finalized his divorce from Jennifer Lopez, he shared how he found himself relating to his Accountant 2 character Christian Wolff.

“Here’s a guy who’s trying to figure out—he wants to have a relationship with a woman,” Affleck said in a recent interview clip shared by Page Six. “He’s trying to figure out how to do that, how to put yourself out there.”

“He’s not comfortable extending himself,” the 52-year-old continued of his character. “He doesn’t really know how to flirt, exactly. He’s not comfortable, like so many of us.”

And as Affleck—who shares kids Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 16, with ex Jennifer Garner—continues to navigate his single era, he admitted that there was a lot he had to relearn, especially when it came to reading signals in relationships.

“It’s not easy for anyone figuring out relationships,” the Good Will Hunting star noted, “particularly at the very early part, where you’re trying to gauge, ‘What does this signal mean? Is this person looking at me? Do they like me? Am I going to humiliate myself if I go over there?’”

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As for why Affleck and Lopez decided to call it quits after two years of marriage? While J.Lo has shared the occasional glimpse into how she’s been doing, the Argo director has kept the details surrounding their breakup a bit more private.

“The reason I don’t want to share that is just sort of embarrassing,” Affleck told GQ in a March profile. “It feels vulnerable.”

“There is no: ‘This is what happened,’” he continued. “It’s just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do.”

But for her part, the “On the Floor” singer admitted, in an Interview profile published last October, that her “whole f--king world exploded” when her marriage fell apart.

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“You have to be complete, if you want something that’s more complete,” J.Lo told comedian Nikki Glaser during the interview. “You have to be good on your own. I thought I learned that, but I didn’t. And then, this summer, I had to be like, ‘I need to go off and be on my own. I want to prove to myself that I can do that.’”

Without naming any names, she added, “Being in a relationship doesn’t define me. I can’t be looking for happiness in other people. I have to have happiness within myself.”

To look back at their relationship, keep reading.

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