Jennifer Garner Said She And Ben Affleck Have Rebuilt A "Partnership" Since Their Divorce

""You have to be smart about what you can and can't handle, and I could not handle what was out there. But what was out there was not what was hard. The fact of it is what was hard," she said. "The actual breaking up of a family is what was hard. Losing a true partnership and friendship is what was hard.""

""That's where your resilience is: it's in your relationships and in the people who carry you through.""

""the biggest regret of [his] life.""

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were first engaged in the early 2000s but called off their wedding in early 2004. Ben began dating Jennifer Garner later in 2004; Ben and Garner married in 2005, had three children, and separated in 2015 with divorce finalized in 2018. Alcohol misuse affected the marriage and split, and Affleck later called the divorce "the biggest regret of [his] life." Garner identified the hardest part of the divorce as the breaking up of a family and the loss of partnership and friendship. Community and relationships provided resilience. Garner has been dating John Miller since 2018 and remains a close co-parent with Affleck.

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