“My own experience as a marriage educator and my understanding of marriage research has led me to the conclusion that soulmates aren’t found,” he says. But the belief that there is one right person for each of us, one Ben for each Jennifer, he says, is a myth. “The opportunity to reconnect with ‘the one that got away’ or one’s ‘soulmate’ has a universal fairytale appeal,” says Haltzman. “Absorbing the ideal of Jen and Ben being back together brings with it recollections of a calmer time in the world of celebrity news.” Sexton agrees: “There’s something comforting about something that can be both simultaneously new and familiar.”įor those itching to reach out to their former flames, however, the therapists and experts have a word of advice, and it is: don’t. In 2002, people weren’t getting their information from the Internet, they weren’t getting daily tweets from celebrities and there was no such thing as following somebody on Facebook,” he says. “Jennifer and Ben’s relationship emerged at the threshold of major changes in our society. Scott Haltzman, a psychiatrist and medical director at Fuller Hospital in Massachusetts, says nostalgia might be playing a big role. And after a year full of surprises, nearly all of them unwelcome, the Bennifer reunion is at once unlikely, but also like seeing an old friend. Of course, in an era where activity is restricted and people are bored, a genuinely unusual love story resonates more. That’s a whole lot of narrative arc in three short years. The following year, he married Jennifer Garner. Six months later she married Marc Anthony. They made scandalous music videos on yachts, got engaged with a pink diamond, weathered several tabloid scandals and another poorly received movie ( Jersey Girl), called off one wedding ceremony the day before it was to take place, and eventually broke up in early 2004. They met on the set of a legendarily bad movie ( Gigli) in 2002 when she was married. Why this middle-aged couple and why now? Part of it, of course, is t he duo’s storied history. By the time the New York Post got a photo of an actual kiss, even people who could not name one J.Lo song were riveted. Photos of the once-engaged couple merely disembarking a plane together made global headlines. A set of 24-year-old twins who had been separated for two decades since the 1999 sectarian conflicts in Maluku finally reunited on Wednesday in Tasikmalaya, West Java, after finding each other. The unlikely romantic rapprochement between Ben Affleck, 48, and Jennifer Lopez, 51, has captured the public interest with an intensity that feels like a throwback to a time before reality TV when there was a limit to how many famous people we were allowed to care about.
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