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Celebrity Relationships: Do They Try to Make it Work?
The Latest Divorce — Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
The latest celebrity divorce has come to light. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have called it quits. Lopez filed the divorce papers without an attorney. Per TMZ, Lopez went to a courthouse in Los Angeles and filed the intent to divorce. There’s no prenup, so the couple needs to figure out how to divide the assets they acquired together for the past two years.
I have mixed feelings about the split. For one, Lopez and Affleck put their love life and marriage on public display. They seemed so happy and in love. They had rekindled a relationship that had ended over twenty years ago. The couple gave us hope that an old flame could be reignited.
It was a lie.
Lopez and Affleck had us all fooled. Most of these celebrities have us fooled. They put their love on display, take us on their whirlwind romance tour, and then abruptly end things. We’re left confused and wanting. What happened?!
I’ve been married for twenty-plus years, and while the marriage is far from perfect, it has outlasted more celebrity couplings than I can count. Marriage isn’t something to enter into lightly, and both parties need to understand the responsibilities of marriage fully. I think that’s where things go awry.
