Ben Affleck opens up about his 'beautiful' love affair with Jennifer Lopez

The actor spoke in an interview about the couple we know and appreciate as Bennifer and about whether second chances in love are good

Second parts were never good, you could already read in 'Don Quixote'. So the expression is long. But from time to time there are those who insist on proving the opposite. For example, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, or Bennifer for short, who continue to show us every day that the second and more mature stage of their romance is as good or better than their first courtship.

The Oscar-winning director and actor gave an interview to the 'Wall Street Journal' to talk about his latest film, 'The Tender Bar', in which he plays a character "strangely close" to that of his own father. he. However, the interviewer managed to derive the topic of the conversation to what we all wanted to know: details of his love story with JLo.

Reflecting on his second chance with the pop star, after his initial relationship between 2002 and 2004, Affleck was cautious and did not make any spectacular confessions, but he did say that he hopes to marry again one day. Something that his partner recently referred to on the 'Today show', saying that she considers herself "a romantic" and still believes in "and they lived happily and ate partridges".

"Fear led me to the work ethic," he said, referring to his past alcohol problems that ended up costing him his marriage to Jennifer Garner. "Only in the last four years have I been able to not be so terrified. The most important thing is to be a good father. The second most important thing is to be a good man, a good person and, you know, a good husband. Hopefully." .

"Being a good husband, in the future. Can we talk about your current relationship [with Jennifer Lopez]?" Was the next question for the actor. "You can write guesses about it, but one of the hardest lessons I've learned is that it's not wise to share everything with the world," said a discreet Affleck, who in fact recently decided to delete his Instagram account.

"There are some things that are private and intimate and have meaning in terms of their intimacy by dint of not sharing them with the rest of the world. I feel more comfortable learning to find a line between the things I want to share and the things I don't. No I know if it's good or bad. I don't know. I know that I feel more comfortable having those boundaries in my life around which, in a friendly and direct way, I tell you that I don't want to be talking about my personal relationship in a newspaper " .

On how their romance was restarted, the actor limited himself to answering that it has been a "beautiful story for me", and assured that "one of the things that I really value in all facets of my life right now is that it was handled in a way that reflects that. My life now reflects not only the person I want to be, but the person I really feel I am, who is not perfect, but someone who tries very hard and cares a lot about being honest and authentic and responsible. It's hard to express who benefits the most, without getting into gossip. It's a great story. Maybe one day I'll tell it. I'll write it all down... and then I'll set it on fire," he laughed.

On love knocking on his door a second time with the same person, Affleck said that it is indeed rare and considers himself "lucky" as "I've benefited from second chances and I'm aware that other people don't even have one." first chance. I've had second chances in my career. I've had second chances as a human being. Life is hard and we're always failing and we hope to learn from those failures."