How Jennifer Garner is DESPERATELY trying to help her ex-husband Ben Affleck save his two-year marriage to Jennifer Lopez, while the actresses fear he may relapse under the strain.
Garner, 52, was photographed arriving at the $100,000-a-month Brentwood estate where Affleck, 51, is staying on Sunday amid reports that their two-year marriage is on "shaky ground." .
Affleck, who rekindled his romance with Lopez in 2021, has been photographed on occasion without his wedding ring, while the Jenny From The Block singer, 54, walked the red carpet alone for her new film on Monday night. evening.
They formed a united front during a recent outing in Los Angeles, some 47 days after they were last photographed together, but that did little to dispel growing speculation about the status of their marriage.
Now, inside sources have claimed that Lopez has turned to Garner for help, as she is one of the few people who can completely relate to her current situation.
"JLo has been confiding in Jen because she knows she is one of the only people in the world who would understand what she is going through," the source told DailyMail.com exclusively.
"She's been through this with the same man and although the circumstances were quite different, she's still the same man and they both dealt with some of the same issues."
Garner was spotted parking in the driveway of Affleck's Brentwood mansion on Sunday, just hours after the exes reunited for their son Samuel's basketball game in Santa Monica.
The source explained that Garner wants to help save her young marriage since she values the stabilizing force Lopez can be in her ex-husband's life.
"Jen doesn't want Ben to call off this marriage because she really cares about JLo," the source said. 'She went to her house to talk to him about this and try to keep the two of them together.
'Jen told JLo several times how valued she is in all of her lives. She is one of the only women who can communicate with Ben and prevent him from falling into the abyss of his addiction.
People close to Affleck believe she is displaying a known pattern of behavior when it comes to how he approaches marital problems.
"Ben is frustrated right now because he has no way out of his problems, so he runs away," the source continued.
"The biggest fear right now is that he will start drinking again and part of the reason Jen has been keeping an eye on him is to make sure this doesn't happen."
Affleck has previously made no secret of the fact that he felt a lot of "shame" and "regret" about the way his marriage to Garner came to an end.
Speaking to The New York Times in 2020, he explained: 'I drank relatively normally for a long time. What happened was that I started drinking more and more when my marriage was falling apart.
"This was in 2015, 2016. My drinking, of course, created more marital problems."
The Argo star finally did a stint in rehab in August 2018 after Garner, with whom he shares children Violet, Seraphina (who now goes by Fin), and son Samuel, arranged an intervention with the help of a sober coach. at his home in California.
He admitted that feeling "trapped" during his marriage played a role in why he started drinking.
The Gone Girl star went on to tell The Hollywood Reporter: 'The idea that I was blaming my wife for my drinking. To be clear, my behavior is entirely my responsibility. What I was trying to say was sad.'
He continued: "I was trying to say, 'Hey, look, I was drinking too much, and the less happy you become, whether it's in your job, in your marriage, is that as your life becomes more difficult, if you're 'Do things to fill a void that aren't healthy, you're going to start doing more of those things. I think I was pretty eloquent about that.'
The actor explained his thought process during those dark times and recalled, "You know, I thought, 'I can't leave because of my kids, but I'm not happy.' What I do?".
"And what I did was drink a bottle of whiskey and fall asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution."
Furthermore, the source insisted that the couple is working together to get through this rough patch, and Garner is doing everything she can to cheer them up.
"JLo and Ben are trying so hard to make this work and Jen is definitely a cheerleader for them," the source added. "Jen and Ben's children love JLo like a second mom and would be devastated if this were to end.
"There are so many reasons why they should resolve it and very few reasons why they should end it."
Ben and Jennifer got engaged in late 2002, but broke up a year later before ending their relationship for good in 2004.
In April 2021, they were seen together for the first time in over a decade, sparking relationship rumors.
They eventually went public with their rekindled romance and married in July 2022.
Reports of marital strife began earlier this month when it became clear that the couple had not been photographed together in 47 days.
At that time, López was seen looking for a house without him.
It was later revealed that the couple has been living apart for the past few months, with Affleck staying in a rental home.
He was seen without his wedding ring for the first time on Friday as he left the property, and was also photographed without it on Saturday when he met up with Garner and Violet.
He wasn't wearing it on Monday while filming The Accountant 2.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, a source previously claimed the couple are struggling with the fact that "time hasn't changed who they are to the core."
"Jennifer and Ben have been on shaky ground for quite some time," the source claimed.
'Ben went into this thinking she was a changed woman who only cared about love and no longer fame. He wants what she wants: a family and someone for her to grow old with.
The source said the lackluster response to Lopez's latest album, This Is Me Now, which celebrates the couple's love story, and poor ticket sales for her upcoming tour have put a strain on their relationship.
"Since the release of her album they've been on shaky ground," the source continued. 'What they both didn't realize is that they are once again facing the same problems they had the first time they broke up. Time has not changed who they are to the core.
A source recently told Us Weekly in a story published Saturday that Affleck moved out of his and Lopez's $60 million home in Los Angeles "several weeks ago."
They insisted that the couple is not currently headed for divorce.
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