Speaker 1: The story that everyone is gripped by is Ben Affleck
Speaker 1: trying to rekindle his love life.
Speaker 2: I thought it was if I'm going to get a
Speaker 2: stripp before my hend No, I mean, we've moved past
Speaker 2: that one. But the new story that everyone's gripped by
Speaker 2: is Ben Affleck trying to rekindle his love with Jennifer Garner.
Speaker 3: We're surely not.
Speaker 1: So. There's been quite a few articles that have come
Speaker 1: out off the back of some relatively cute family photos,
Speaker 1: like it looks like they're co parenting really well, they're
Speaker 1: getting along really well. And then a undisclosed source has
Speaker 1: said that Ben would really like to rekindle his relationship
Speaker 1: with Jennifer Garner. She's not interested at the moment, but
Speaker 1: he holds hope that in the future.
Speaker 4: Was that her public statement more well, I'm currently not interesting,
Speaker 4: you know, come back, circle back after the next gen.
Speaker 1: You know, when it's an undisclosed source and it's just
Speaker 1: totally made up by the journalist that actually no one's
Speaker 1: ever said this.
Speaker 4: She's in a relationship, yes, that's why she's not interested.
Speaker 3: She's very happy. She said.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's interesting because, like I mean, he does
Speaker 1: have a track record of this, right, Like he has
Speaker 1: a track record of going back to exis very famously,
Speaker 1: he married Jennifer Lopez after a what like twenty year hiatus.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's married a thirty five times now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but blessed, maybe they've really ended that now,
Speaker 1: like maybe it's properly dead in the water.
Speaker 3: They're never getting back together the words of Taylor's swash,
Speaker 3: getting that together.
Speaker 4: But I don't actually think, you know, I don't think
Speaker 4: he pinballed between the gens as much as we think
Speaker 4: he did. I think he kept going back to the
Speaker 4: same gen, But I don't think his ex Jennifer Garner
Speaker 4: ever actually took him back.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, But I do think it raises questions
Speaker 1: because a lot of people do seem to gravitate back
Speaker 1: to old relationships, even if those old relationships weren't very
Speaker 1: good in the first place. It seems like sometimes we
Speaker 1: have this like very romanticized memory around old relationships, or
Speaker 1: maybe they're just like an easy springboard when you're lonely
Speaker 1: and like needing someone to fill a hole. Not really wow,
Speaker 1: feel a gap in your heart, like a life whole.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I say this.
Speaker 1: There was a really interesting article that Body and Soul
Speaker 1: published around this, and it was like a lot of
Speaker 1: people talk about it as though it's like divine timing.
Speaker 1: The relationship didn't work out in the past, but maybe
Speaker 1: in the future you come back together and you get
Speaker 1: this second chance of love that I often think it
Speaker 1: just doesn't work out because I don't necessarily agree that
Speaker 1: it's divine timing that one person slipped into the other
Speaker 1: person's DMS. I think it's usually that one person's single
Speaker 1: and you go back to familiarity, and usually you go
Speaker 1: back to something that you have romanticized that it's like
Speaker 1: going to be a better version, or you remember all
Speaker 1: the best bits about the relationship, but you don't remember
Speaker 1: all the crappy bits and all the reasons why you
Speaker 1: broke up in the first place.
Speaker 3: It's the devil. You know.
Speaker 4: It's a comfort, it's easy. You've been there. You know
Speaker 4: you can fall back into it. You don't have to
Speaker 4: go and do the PowerPoint presentation again from like this
Speaker 4: is where I grew up, this is what I like,
Speaker 4: this is my job, this is my history, Like you
Speaker 4: just pass all the bs. I don't know if I
Speaker 4: agree with you so much because talking about divine invention.
Speaker 4: I had a friend who was like the plub version
Speaker 4: of Jen and Ben.
Speaker 3: Is in exactly what you want to be called in life.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're not in the.
Speaker 4: Public eye, just normal people. But they got married at
Speaker 4: like nineteen twenty. They were school sweethearts, and they were
Speaker 4: together for a few years and then realized this is
Speaker 4: not it. We're too young, Like we want different things,
Speaker 4: we're growing in different directions. So they divorced proper divorced,
Speaker 4: didn't stay in contact.
Speaker 1: Like dated other people had other relations, not even.
Speaker 4: Like maintaining They were like, we don't We're not in
Speaker 4: each other's lives, didn't follow each other on Instagram, like.
Speaker 3: They just moved on because they were young. And then probably.
Speaker 4: A decade later, she had had a relationship with someone else,
Speaker 4: had had a baby, like fully moved on, and she
Speaker 4: was in the supermarket in this new town and she
Speaker 4: went down the aisle and she ran into her first
Speaker 4: husband or when she was twenty and they're like, oh
Speaker 4: my god, like, how you being whatever like, and he's like, oh,
Speaker 4: you got a kid, and she's like yeah, but she's like,
Speaker 4: we're not together anymore.
Speaker 3: Whatever. They ended up remarrying and having more kids. Together.
Speaker 3: So that's crazy.
Speaker 4: Genuinely for them, was that right person, wrong time. They
Speaker 4: needed to go and live their lives, and then they
Speaker 4: came back together. They'd be married now for like eight
Speaker 4: nine years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think there's always exceptions to the rules.
Speaker 1: I'm a bit of a cynic about it. And I
Speaker 1: think the reason for that is is because like in
Speaker 1: my twenties, I was like the relationship ping pong. So
Speaker 1: I would be in like a long term relationship, we
Speaker 1: would we would break up because obviously it was not
Speaker 1: a good relationship, it was not going anywhere.
Speaker 3: Then I'd have like five years.
Speaker 1: Of dating other people and one lonely night, I'd be like, Oh,
Speaker 1: what's that guy up to?
Speaker 3: And I'd go back.
Speaker 1: I often would end up redating people that I had
Speaker 1: had long term relationships with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have analyzed you over the years, though.
Speaker 4: It is because you were a monkey brancher from relationships
Speaker 4: and if there wasn't a new relationship for you to
Speaker 4: monkey branch to, you monkey branch back.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, we don't need to psychoanalyze me on this show.
Speaker 4: We're already I've spent six years psychoanalyzing you know.
Speaker 1: I was a hot mess in my twenties. Everyone, it
Speaker 1: was not good. Thank God for that Bachelor show. Look,
Speaker 1: that's the end of the show, guys.