Divorce rumours swirl around Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have reportedly hit a rocky patch in their marriage with sources telling Us Weekly the pair are “having issues in their marriage.”

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“Jen and Ben are having issues in their marriage,” an insider exclusively tells Us Weekly of couple. “They started having issues a few months ago as Jen had started ramping up work commitments and prepping for her tour.”

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According to the publication, Lopez, 54, is getting ready for her upcoming This Is Me… Live shows and Affleck is in the midst of filming The Accountant 2.

“Jen is very focused on work,” the source tells Us. “They are on two completely different pages most of the time.”

The news comes after an InTouch report was published this week in which a confidante declared the two are headed for splitsville.

“The writing is on the wall – it’s over,” the insider claimed. “They’re headed for a divorce – and for once, (Ben’s) not to blame!”

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The earwitness says that Affleck, 51, is surrounding himself with work and taking care of his three children, whom he co-parents with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner.

“He’s focusing on his work and his kids now,” the insider adds. “Ben already moved out and they’ll likely have to sell the dream house they spent two years searching for. They’ll never stop loving each other, but she can’t control him, and he can’t change her. There’s no way it could have lasted.”

Earlier this week, Affleck was photographed by TMZ leaving a Los Angeles-area home he’s been staying at by himself.

The outlet noted that they are “100%” sure he’s moved out of their marital home and also observed that despite not being photographed together in several weeks, both Lopez and Affleck have been seen “rocking their wedding rings in recent days.”

Neither has commented on the status of their relationship, but both Cosmopolitan, Page Six and the Daily Mail reported that J.Lo hit the “like” button on an Instagram post about relationship problems.

The post in question from personal coach Lenna Marsak reads: “You can’t build a relationship with someone who is disconnected from themselves. We can’t expect someone to see us when we can’t even see themselves. Getting in a relationship is the easy part. Nurturing & fostering it is a different story. After all, love is not a feeling, it’s action.”

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The twosome hasn’t been photographed together since late March, with Lopez doing the press rounds for her upcoming Netflix movie, Atlas, and working on a new movie Kiss of the Spiderwoman on the East Coast.

The I’m Real singer was also prepping for the Met Gala in New York City, which she co-chaired and attended solo earlier this month. 

Meanwhile, the Oscar winning Argo director has been shooting his sequel to The Accountant in Los Angeles, and dropped in at the the May 5 Roast of Tom Brady by himself.

But various insiders tell  Us Weekly the duo are committed to working on their relationship and are not planning to separate.

“Ben believes in therapy, to a point, and is willing to be a good sport about participating with an open mind, even though he hates the whole humiliating process,” an insider told InTouch.

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Affleck and Lopez started dating over 20 years ago after they met on the set of Gigli and they were engaged from 2002 to 2004. Dubbed “Bennifer,” the pair’s romance was tabloid fodder highlighted by glitzy movie premieres and a 6.1 carat, pink diamond engagement ring. But the couple called off their wedding at the last-minute in 2003 and ended their relationship a few months later.

After their breakup, Lopez moved on with singer Marc Anthony, with whom she had two children, while Affleck married Garner and became a father to three. Both unions ended in divorce.

The former flames rekindled their old romance in 2021, after Lopez broke off her engagement with retired baseball slugger Alex Rodriguez, and wed the following year.

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Last December, Lopez told Variety “we both have PTSD” following the media scrutiny that followed their relationship the first time around, but she told the outlet that the passage of time convinced her that their renewed romance is built to last.

“We’re older now. We’re wiser. We also know what’s important, what’s really important in life, and it’s not so much what other people think. It’s about being true to who you are,” she said.

Lopez also explored their reunion in her 2024 Prime Video documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, which Affleck reluctantly participated in.

“I just said to him during one of the parts of the movie, I was like, ‘Is this weird?’ He’s like, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘You’re crazy.’ I told him he was crazy, not me. But I know that I’m a crazy one. I get that part,” she said at a Q&A for the film in February (per PEOPLE).

“But I really feel like as an artist, you have to be vulnerable. You have to, even when you’re playing a role, have to get down to the real parts of yourself to share what it’s like to be human. And that is a scary thing to do.”

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