Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s alleged marriage crisis covers the new issue of Star Magazine. The subtitle reads “Ben Caught Cheating!” Inside, it’s clear that the article is based on Ben getting kicked out of a Vegas casino for counting cards while playing blackjack. This supposedly caused a huge rift between Ben and Jen. Star has a whole scenario worked out where Jen was humiliated and lashed out at Ben. It doesn’t ring true to me, but I would buy that things are tense. This fight sounds bogus though.
“Jen demanded to go to Vegas with Ben because she doesn’t trust him – and he felt like he had no choice but to take her,” a close insider says. “But after their dinners there each night, she would go back to their suite while Ben would stay out all night playing cards, betting thousands of dollars at a time. It makes Jen so mad, but once Ben starts gambling, he can’t stop…
“He’s constantly working, leaving her alone with the children for days and weeks at a time. She feels like a single mother…
“It’s all really taking a toll on her,” the insider says. “She constantly checks in with Ben, texting and calling him multiple times a day when he is gone, but that frustrates him and leads to huge fights. He’s great with the kids when he’s around, but he and Jen barely talk at home – and when they do it always turns into an argument.”
The scenario at the casino
During Ben and Jennifer’s April 22 Vegas outing, [Ben], 41, was caught counting cards at a casino blackjack table. “Ben was asked repeatedly to stop card counting; however, he would not stop,” a Las Vegas source says. “The casino staff told Ben that he was being too obvious. They allowed him to keep playing for a bit but eventually asked him to leave…“Before he left the table, he grabbed a ton of chips… [Jennifer] followed him out, way behind him. She had her head down and looked embarrassed and ashamed.
“Ben lost a lot of money before he was booted from the casino, which infuriated Jen… she screamed at him, telling him he needed to quit gambling for good. But he told her that he’s a grown man and will do what he wants. Neither of them backed down for good 15 minutes. Finally, Jen just went to bed.”
Problems at home
“When Jen confront Ben about his lack of help [at home], it turns into a huge fight… Sometimes Jen has a meltdown, and Ben will take her to see her therapist, but really, he only does that because he doesn’t want to listen to her whine. More often, he’ll just leave.”
[From Star Magazine, print edition, May 19, 2013]
So Star is claiming Jennifer would go back to her room after dinner most nights while Ben played cards, but in this case she was there with him. They also claim that Affleck got kicked out of the casino for losing money. That’s highly doubtful.
The way I imagine the dynamic between Jennifer and Ben, he basically does what he wants and she puts up with it, maybe with some passive aggressive prodding but not much else. I doubt Jen is screaming at Ben for gambling. As Star points out, Jen has said that she’s “conflict averse” and doesn’t like to argue. These two have faced issues in their marriage before and they’ll tell you about it. I doubt this is as serious a problem for them as Star makes it out to be, but you never know.
Kaiser calls me an Affleck Apologist, because I tend to give him a break. She thinks he’s deep in his addiction and in a downward spiral. In my (rosy) opinion, Ben is a gambling addict but at least he’s not carousing with hookers and blow (that we know of). He’s capable of much more spectacular self sabotage than being extremely good at high rollers blackjack.
The truth is probably somewhere in between, with Batfleck in the danger zone but not as far into it some might assume. I think Ben knows what a good thing he has and isn’t going to jeopardize his family. We’ll see, though. Most of us remember how he cheated on J.Lo right before their doomed wedding was to take place. Now whenever Ben gets into trouble, people wait for the other shoe to drop.
Photos of Ben and Jen together are from February and March, 2014. The photos of Jen out with the kids are from earlier this month. Credit: FameFlynet
Seems only the unmarried couples in Hollywood stay together.
Did you see Laineys blind? She basically confirmed it was about Affleck yesterday.
http://www.laineygossip.com/He-likes-them-big-and-buff-blind-riddle/30169?categoryId=1057
That does not scream Affleck to me.
Not Affleck
Actually she specifically said he WAS NOT the subject of the blind yesterday.
‘Tired. Dry. Haggard.
Not big, buff, and blind though. Not this time.’
http://www.laineygossip.com/Ben-Affleck-puts-gas-in-his-car-and-grins-after-getting-busted-at-the-casino-for-card-counting/30187
This was def about bradley cooper. There was a blind about two months ago about Ben Affleck getting back into drugs, alcohol, gambling and cheating:
http://www.laineygossip.com/His-ups-and-downs-blind-riddle/29657?categoryId=1057
Actually Lainey eliminated Ben Affleck as a suspect yesterday. She wrote:
“But is it just me or does he look like sh-t?
Tired. Dry. Haggard.
Not big, buff, and blind though. Not this time.”
When she post about the culprit, which I strongly believe is B Coop she will say that he IS big and buff and add a litte “ahem” after that or something obvious like that.
Lainey confirmed the blind was NOT Affleck. She wrote ‘Not big, buff, and blind though. Not this time.’
I think ‘Not this time’ means a previous blind. This one fits BA http://www.laineygossip.com/His-ups-and-downs-blind-riddle/29657?categoryId=1057
Big and Buff is most likely Bradley Cooper.
@Alice.H…yes I believe the “not this time” part is about the ups and downs blind. It’s always been implied that Ben’s problems are addiction and women who are not his wife.
I think it is about Jake G. She posted a pic and talked about how Maggie protects him more than he does her. Then she posted a pic with Jake and his girlfriend. Jake was also in Vegas in the last month or so at a boxing match and Vegas is definitely in the desert.
@Farzana-yes, the other Lainey blind (drinking and cheating) was clearly Ben Aflleck. She pretty much outed him a few days later when she talked about his back problems. I don’t think the recent blind is about Jake-he hasn’t “transformed”-that would be Bradley Cooper.
At first I thought it was Cooper, but now I think Elise might be right. Jake DID just transform – lost a ton of weight and grew a beard for a role. She also mentioned Tinder in yesterday’s post about him and his gf, which seems associated with the blind.
Seriously, the ‘hooks up with random men online’ comment does NOT scream Affleck to me. BCoop hooking up with dudes? That I could see.
I love Garner & Affleck as a couple. Adore Jenn Garner, but I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes for anything. Ben appears to be her 4th child.
Not true. He won $800,000 that time
I think she’s pregnant again..so I doubt they’re splitting up at least not today or the next couple years.
Can someone show me one instance of a person getting kicked out of a casino for losing money? Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that the point?
Right?!? Ridiculous
True. But theres something wrong with the official version too. Sure counting cards is really frowned upon by Casinos. And yes they will ban people for it. However it doesnt make sense to me that they would ban Ben purely for that. Ben maybe bending the odds in his favor but he is also a major magnet for whales. And not just whales, odds are that even ordinary Joes will place higher and more reckless bets if they fid themselves sitting near a movie star. Its not just the star struck factor, theres also a fantasy thing there, where just for a minute you are rolling with the big boys and maybe even impressing Batman. Comeon, even if ordinary Joe isnt even on the same table, a movie star in the room would amp up the mood.
I just think theres something more to this story and its not just that he was counting cards. I actually suspect he fell out with a mega whale or even the ownership and thats why this went down as it did. I mean seriously, why wasnt his PR team able to suppress the official statement. If he was being banned just for counting why wouldnt all partys just avoid adverse publicity and just agree that dude wont be back sans an embarassing statement? Too many questions, here.
Good points @Rainbows.
Hmmm now I’m VERY curious about the truth
Rainbows,
You’re onto something. I have been told that this is an unusual way to handle simple card counting.
@Rainbows,
I also thought it was a strange story. Just the fact that they felt they had a put out such a high profile statement got my conspiracy theory antennae twitching. Its almost as though they didnt care about losing any potential business associated with the Afflecks. And Ben does hang with some big time players. Also, these are venues that pay reality stars to make appearances under the pretext of glamming up the venue. I dont buy for even an instant that they would just casually throw away a connection to the Afflecks. It seems more likely that they would do a cost-benefit analysis of first kicking him out (the cons outweigh the pros there). And another cost-benefit analysis of making a statement (once again, makes no sense)
Rainbows
You make some interesting and valid points but I don’t know about the star factor affecting the bets of others. I can tell you that at the high limit gaming tables the only celebrity is a face and an ace. Those guys bet so extremely high and so often you would be surprised how focused they are on their hands. In my experience the more raucous, chatty, backslapping gamblers are not betting $10K per hand. And although there are many exceptions, the majority of high limit gamblers are successful/important in their own world and don’t enjoy coming off like a fangirl even if they have to suppress it. When it comes to celebrities in Vegas even the waitresses are over it if the celebrity becomes a regular.
Why humiliate him though? These things are usually handled discreetly. After all, we went 3 decades never knowing that Travolta was being systematically banned from various spas, gyms and hotels.
I live in Vegas and don’t even blink when I see a celebrity any longer. Of course when I first moved here it was a novelty. But then I worked in the casino industry for a number of years and the “glamour” quickly soured.
Floor manager at casino spots man losing tons of money and says, “aha! That bastard is obviously counting cards incorrectly! Get him out of here before he loses more!” Yeah, that’s probably what happened. I’m surprised I haven’t been kicked out of every casino I’ve ever been to.
Right? This is very shoddy reporting by Star. (Cough)
I know, what a shock, right?
Well, it’s Star, so at least 90% fiction.
I would hope it’s not true for the kids sake. Plus Ben worked hard to get his career back on track and has done well, I don’t want to see them throw that all away.
I believe this.
Seems he is an addict.
And divorce announcement in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
I give them about 2 more years. (Or 1 and a half, actually).
We are the minority I guess. I dont believe he’s the family man he pretends to be. I do think he cheats often on Jen and wants a career more then his family.Shrug. it happens. I think when he met Jen he was trying to clean up and her good nature and image helped him. But these days image is everything to him. . . So he wont leave her. She’d have to leave him and she didnt leave Scott Foley until she was sleeping with someone else (alias guy).
He’s creepy. He seems like a nasty drunk. He never looks happy and he has a beautiful family and the world at his feet. Why so sour? Because he has demons. Drinking, gambling, flings – I would believe all of it. I agree the question is how soon the bomb will go off, not whether it will or not.
Agree. I haven’t liked him since he’s been with Garner.
He comes across like one of these jerks who gets married and then constantly acts aggrieved that his wife isn’t a fantasy adoring pin-up with no needs.
I am with you.
I don’t buy the “family man” image.
I think he still has issues maybe not with alchool, probably he’s sober now, but gambling that’s a tough addiction too. I don’t think they will divorce soon.
He still drinks, doesn’t try to hide that.
what did jennifer garner expect from him? He just seems like not the best choice for expecting ‘forever.’ Although Ben Affleck is probably a decent guy, this gambling thing seems a bit intense as well as what do seem like struggles/problems (serious) in the relationship. I know there are others like brad pitt and warren beatty (maybe george clooney?!) who go on seemingly to stable relationships but he doesn’t seem like one of them. Even that gwyneth paltrow quote (where did I see this? where she talked about old relationships) was telling. I feel for jennifer garner and of course neither would want their children to have their parents separated but I don’t really see how it can go any other way. If not right now, when they get a bit older. I think Jennifer Garner seems sweet (so adorable in ‘thirteen going on thirty’ really got that role) but I think she might be over her head here.
Garner isn’t as sweet as you think she is. She cheated on Scott foley while married to him, she cheated on michael vartan with Ben affleck, when affleck was engaged to jlo. I’m no jlo fan, but as a lady, I can see how hurtful something like this could be to another female or to the men you cheat on. Garner deserves what she gets. She was just so desperate to get affleck. Careful what you wish for, you may get it. LOL
I agree Ben ultimately won’t jeopardize his family but not because he’s deeply in love with Jennifer. I do believe he probably cares about Jen and loves his kids. However, I also think he believes that this “second” career he’s finally built for himself hinges partly on public perception that he has this stable, white picket fence, down to earth family life. I believe this is something he has consciously chosen, and while I’ve always thought he and Jennifer are highly mismatched, I doubt he’ will risk this family image because he is aware of how it could impact his career. I’m NOT saying he doesn’t care about his family – I think he does. But I do believe he might have walked away from Jen multiple times in the past but thought better of it. I think he has tried to follow a similar path to Matt Damon w/ regards to family life, except I don’t think it’s necessarily truly who Ben is, while for Matt, it seem genuine.
Also, I 100% believe Jen forced him to bring her to Vegas. That rings dead-on authentic in terms of how I imagine her personality.
I completely agree with your first paragraph. I will be more shocked if Ben & Jen divorce than if they stay together for the rest of their lives. I think they both rely on their “happy” family image too much to ever divorce. I also think Ben realises that his image will be hurt a lot more if they ever divorce than if they stay together.
This!… Both people benefit from the “we’re a happy dimples parade”
I do however believe he dogs around on her at will and it’s probably backsliding into some substance abuse issue but not because Star Magazine told me
Yup.
I don’t foresee Jen ever leaving Ben. She dug her heels in. She went after him and he is the big fish in her eyes, even though he treats her with indifference/annoyance at this point.
And Ben knows how far he can fall. He was miserable when his career took a nosedive after the Bennifer debacle with JLo. He will do anything NOT to go back to be a joke, even endure a marriage with someone he is mismatched with.
I don’t get what’s the problem with him being with jlo? Can anyone explain why it was a bad thing? A debacle? Seriously
Yep, I think they’ll stay together indefinitely unless he screws around too openly (like the Kristen Stewart and Rupert Sanders situation) and it would hurt her image MORE to stay with him. As long as he keeps it on the down low I bet she’ll put up with it.
@QQ, “we’re a happy dimples parade” is such an adorable quote, I’m going to ask it out on a date.
You do that but treat her like a lady!
Oh Q!
Ben likes to self sabotage his life. I am stunned that he is still married.
And would not be surprise to hear, that he is only still married… simply cause he has been talked out of divorce. Every 3 months, for the last 4 years. By his crisis PR manager and agent… who manage to get his career back on track.
Yep, it’s sad and predictable. It’s apparent he finds his career and being “Ben” more enjoyable than being a family man..
Ben wanted a fourth child. Jen is the one that said three is it as she said in an interview after the little boy was born. Ben said in an interview she had the say since she had to carry the baby. I think he loves his family very much. Have you ever thought they do have a good marriage and he is committed? I take blind gossip with a grain of salt. Everyone and their gossip like it’s fact on here.
I think they are both happy with their arrangement I can’t see them ever divorcing, he has too much invested in his family man image and all her fame is because of him.
ITA.
On the one hand, I think this Star story is crap but on the other, I am pretty sure they have major issues.
During the Oscar run for Argo, Ben admitted that his directing career is a consuming focus, That he is “mentally absent” when he is working. Details Interview – http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/cover-stars/201210/ben-affleck-actor-cover?currentPage=4
Recently, Jennifer talked about the lengths she goes to so he is involved with the kids when he is away. Both readily admit that she bears the bulk of the parenting responsibilities.
Both his exes (Paltrow and J-Lo) have implied that his addictions and self-destructive behaviors were problematic. And Ben is convincing no one that he has conquered those demons. It’s only a matter of time before the lap dancers start coming out of the woodwork.
All that said, ITA that both have invested far too much into their joint Hollywood status and they need each other. She may not be the breadwinner but those daily trips to the coffee shop, and endless dimples were worth every Oscar vote.
They will go down with this ship.
If the Afflecks ever split, it would be similar to Paltrow and Martin imo, no shock that there were very serious problems but shock that they actually threw in the towel.
ITA.
On the one hand, I think this Star story is crap but on the other, I am pretty sure they have major issues.
During the Oscar run for Argo, Ben admitted that his directing career is a consuming focus, That he is “mentally absent” when he is working. Details Interview – http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/cover-stars/201210/ben-affleck-actor-cover?currentPage=4
Recently, Jennifer talked about the lengths she goes to so he is involved with the kids when he is away. Both readily admit that she bears the bulk of the parenting responsibilities.
Both his exes (Paltrow and J-Lo) have implied that his addictions and self-destructive behaviors were problematic. And Ben is convincing no one that he has conquered those demons. It’s only a matter of time before the lap dancers start coming out of the woodwork.
All that said, ITA that both have invested far too much into their joint Hollywood status and they need each other. She may not be the breadwinner but those daily trips to the coffee shop, and endless dimples were worth every Oscar vote.
They will go down with this ship.
If the Afflecks ever split, it would be similar to Paltrow and Martin imo, no shock that there were very serious problems but shock that they actually threw in the towel.
Maybe they exaggerated and added some made up details to make the story better but I believe the article is closer to the truth than not. I think Ben does well when working and focused on a project but always seems hanging on to the edge and all it would take is a small push to fall spectacularly over that edge.
She seems like a very nice person ( who can’t dress casually to save her life) but I think she does play up her happy family storyline to her benefit.
I think it would take ALOT for her to leave him and she is keeping that marriage together. I think she’s a classic enabler to the textbook tee and she will do whatever it takes to ‘fix’ Ben and keep him functioning for appearances.
Sadly I could totally see a situation in 5 or 10 years where he straightens up completely and marries a much younger woman and treats her like royalty. He’s just that kind of creep.
“He’s just that kind of creep.” Bwahaha ;-P
Jen wont leave him…this isnt the first wave of bad behavior reported or unreported. Jen has always seemed like a passive aggressive person who puts up with BS with a smile to save face. Ben is an addict and it must be tough to be with someone like that. I’m sure she’s embarrassed by the reports and in the past he’s said some not so nice things about his wife followed by a quick PR recovery. I dont think they will go on like they are. Shen doesnt have much of a career and he’s just egh. His oscar campaign was blatant bs “family man” hilarious!
just curious, ’cause I don’t remember, but what not nice things has he said about her?
He makes comments here and there about how hard it is to be with Jen. It comes across as immature and when he apologizes (since it has happened numerous times) it doesnt seem like has much respect for her.
It seems their marriage works for them. The only thing that bothers me I guess is how he doesn’t seem to support her as and actress. She was in an OSCAR nominated film. I just don’t recall him saying much about her work. He talks about her as a mother but not much about her as a woman. The woman he loves. I know he doesn’t have to proclaim anything in public; but she was so visible for him during the Oscar campaign. She was on the RCs and all. I don’t recall him doing that for DBClub.
But again maybe this works for them. And yes he always looks grumpy.. except that year of the Oscars for Argo. He smiled a lot then.
if a mag opens with a “cheating” headline and then it turns out its about card playing i refuse to believe anything they write. its just faking it to make people buy the magazine on false promises.
She married DOWN. Never could understand what people find so appealing about him.
You and me both, sister! Matt Damon always seemed like the better catch of those two.
Oh yeah! Matt Damon would be a heck of a catch!!!!
Yep. He gives off major douche vibes.
+1
She clearly married up, he was clearly the bigger star of the two, the oscar for good will hunting, cemented him as A-list, something Jen wasn’t. She cheated on two men with a man that was engaged, another cheating scandal for her and she would’ve been branded a h0 with dimples.
Affleck has been cheating on Jen for years… I’m surprised she’s stuck around this long. Maybe it’s for the kids…
it’s always for the kids, remember recently Robin Wright said she and Penn stayed together just for the kids.
She is addicted to him the same way he is addicted to gambling, so she will never leave him. She understands addiction 😉
Affleck is a tool and Garner is spineless.
Exactly. Whether or not they divorce depends on whether she ever grows a spice and takes down the facade. It must be tiring to constantly be so non-confrontational and passive-aggressive with your partner, and to have to keep tabs on him because there is little trust. It’s a sad life, but one that Garner clearly sought as she social-climbed her way through Hollywood. It has paid her handsomely, monetarily speaking.
Sad for the kids. No matter how much money and privilege they have, they’ll be able to feel the dysfunction.
(“spine” not “spice”)
+1000!
he can’t help it. when he’s in a good place, professionally and personally, he has to screw it all. He doesn’t do hookers but he likes to sleep around. from all of the blinds about it I remember a Lainey’s one about a model type at the last oscars, and another about him and Robin Wright doing it some years ago, and Sean penn and Ben hating each other for that reason. Poor Jen, she seems so nice, but in Hollywood nice equals boring.
If that’s true about Robin Wright doing that to Jen, I’ll have to revise my opinion of her as Sean Penn’s formerly long-suffering wife.
I agree, I’ve never believed the victim image than more than often media likes to project about her, because many people say that she’s kind of a b!tch, cold and difficult (see what she did to some reporters at the last White House Correspondents dinner) and I tend to believe in Laineys as one of the few trusted gossipers and she wrote many times, that they both she and Penn cheated, they kinda had an open marriage, and that Robin Wright even fell in love like crazy with one of her lovers. I don’t believe she fell for Ben, but who knows?
In that movie she and Sean did together, “State of Grace,” I’ll never forget that final conversation they have together when he says, “You’re so cold.” She must have been playing herself.
Sean Penn’s an arsehole, but Robin’s always had a reputation for being rude and difficult, from before she even met Sean. Perfect match there, and now they’ve both found similar matches with Foster and Theron.
In the same way, Vanessa Paradis has always had a reputation for being straight up mean to anyone she deems below her (which is just about everyone), and having had to deal with her a few times I can confirm that’s very true. Now that both women have ditched their husbands everyone’s holding them up as the long suffering wife and ignoring the fact that they’re deeply unpleasant people in their own right.
There were sightings of Ben hitting on models at the Oscar party, even with Jen around, before the blind items came out. It was definitely him, and he has reportedly been cheating on her for years. The day after the card counting story broke she did posed photos with the kids. It’s all fake.
It wasn’t a Lainey blind , it was a blind item from CDAN. Also, that wasn’t a blind item reveal. People were guessing it was Robin.
I thought there was a Lainey blind that was assumed to be Ben re: after Oscars messiness. She has implied numerous times that he is spiralling, so I’m inclined to think the Star story is true-ish, except he was probably up not down against the house. This marriage has Gwyneth and Chris written all over it. No one thought they would actually split, but they both did get sick of being miserable. Though Jen has shown superhuman ability to ignore obv. high profile embarassments like Blake Lively, Ben’s messy partying, gambling, etc. So I don’t know. Doesn’t he have any real friends willing to call him on his crap if he is a hot mess? I’m glad I’m not married to him, but I don’t entirely hate him either, he is obv. capable of great things artistically (though I thought Argo was overrated). If he is so miserable he is being sloppy about his demons there will be a lot more to come on this I think. I feel a little bit bad for Jennifer but mostly agree she knew what she was getting into and like Reese Witherspoon paints a very controlled image that isn’t that close to reality.
He always looks tense and angry.
Really? I don’t get the angry vibe from him. Lately he just looks bloated and bored.
See? I go and use Ben and Jennifer as an example of a celebrity couple that is making it work yesterday, then THIS happens. I give up. 🙂
Don’t all married couples fight all the time lol?
No they do not. My husband and I rarely fight, sixteen years of marriage.
I never bought these two.
How the hell does anyone believe this??
I think it must be horrible to be married to a selfish man-child. That is all.
i know, i know that he is likely a douche, ok, we might take the ” likely” away, but i like him, damn. He is so sexy, to me, especially when is not posing like it.
I think there is more than a grain of truth to this story based on my own experience. My ex husband and I broke up due in large part to his drinking and gambling issues. I live in Las Vegas and it’s probably the worst place to be when you have a gambling problem. We went through this cycle over and over again until our marriage finally imploded. However, unlike Jen I am not “conflict averse”. He knew the deal from my perspective which was “mess up one more time and we are done.” Go figure that he finally went to rehab and quit drinking and gambling AFTER we split up. But I’m still happy that he finally quit for good. I was surprised to hear that Ben was back in Vegas gambling again. I had thought after rehab (as I mentioned in a previous post) that he had also quit for good. This is a very precarious line that he’s walking since with all of the alcohol that surrounds gambling he could easily fall back into addictive habits. I feel for Jen as I think there is more to this story than we are privy to.
Dear God, Star has bogus covers every week. I can’t believe people buy into these cover stories Ben and Jen miserable, blah, blah.
It’s not “this” story. Even if “this” story isn’t true, I have the same opinion. Which is that the marriage is mutually beneficial. Let’s be clear – I don’t think either of them necessarily sit around overtly thinking about how the marriage benefits them. I think it has just evolved that way. They got married in a blur after she got pregnant, mere months after JLo. Ben was running away from that and toward “something else” – whatever refuge he could find from the public image he created and the career he was seriously at risk of destroying. I believe he probably truly cared about Garner and still does. I just think that he jumped into it too quickly, almost subconsciously to hide or retreat from what was going in with his image. She was already pregnant, and so it began … I just think he jumped into it, and it probably seemed to offer him solace initially, but my guess is that they really aren’t right for each other, but now they just kind of continue marching onward, because the stable family thing is comfortable for him … and her. Again, I’m not sure this is something they do purposely as some kind of facade – I just think it’s like many marriages … once you’re in it, it can be hard to extricate yourselves, especially when the cons of separating seem to outweigh the pros. I think a lot of it is unconscious – they just stay in it because it’s easier overall ….
You said it perfectly @JoJo!
I don’t know about him, but I think she is madly in love with him. It’s obvious to me in interviews the girl is crazy about her man.
What will she do when she can’t have babies to make him stay? I really have little sympathy for her and find her fake. He may be a jerk but she married him.
I have said it before and will say it again: Jenn is addicted to Ben so she will never leave him unless she really understands he does not truly love her, he will never give up on drinking or gambling or marriage has completely broken.
Also, she is quite selfish in love. She won’t give a damn if she decides to leave a man when she finds another man she falls for. Look at her previsous marriage and relationships and it tells all about her. She is not an “angel” as she appears to be. She is very calculated as a woman and her PR works 24/7. I am surprised that women her who “adore” her do not see the real her. I am not protcting Ben by the way. I am only talking about her as a woman and her strategies to get and maintain at every cost what she wants.
Jen is addicted to the star power of Ben A. Without him she is just another home wrecker. HOw quickly people forget how the sweet Jen has broken up a marriage of one her co-stars only to marry someone else whom she cheated on with Ben. She slept with Ben while she was married and Ben was engaged to the so-called less sweet Jennifer.
Jen G is getting exactly what she deserves, you reap what you sow. I am so sick of people feeling sorry for her. She is an adulterer getting paid back.
What is the deal with the affleck brothers? His brother casey is really bizarre/douchey/creepy, too. Makes me curious about their upbringing and background.
Jennifer Garner is a multi offense cheater herself but people tend to forget that.
I can’t believe she would cheat on Michael Vartan!!!
Or Scott Foley! For me they were both hotter than Ben, though admittedly not in his league status/pay wise. She seems willing to put up with a lot more from him than with her lower profile partners…just saying.