Ben Affleck On Learning to Compromise With Jennifer Lopez

Between their internet-breaking reunion, red carpet PDA, and countless Dunkin' memes, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are easily one of the most beloved couples in Hollywood. But despite their high-profile relationship, one half of the couple isn't the biggest fan of being in the public eye. In a clip from the couple's new documentary, The

Between their internet-breaking reunion, red carpet PDA, and countless Dunkin' memes, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are easily one of the most beloved couples in Hollywood. But despite their high-profile relationship, one half of the couple isn't the biggest fan of being in the public eye. In a clip from the couple's new documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, streaming on Prime Video today, Affleck reveals he was hesitant about showing their relationship on social media at the start.

“Getting back together, I said, ‘Listen, one of the things I don’t want is a relationship on social media,’” he remembers of their 2021 reconciliation. “Then, I sort of realized it’s not a fair thing to ask. It’s sort of like, you’re gonna marry a boat captain and you go, ‘Well, I don’t like the water.’”

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After admitting that this approach wasn't realistic for one of the most famous women on Earth (who, by the way, has a whopping 253 million followers on Instagram alone), Affleck came to the conclusion that, like any couple, they'll have to "compromise" on the things they disagree about.

“We’re just two people with different kinds of approaches trying to learn to compromise," he says.

Last week, Lopez dropped her new album This Is Me ... Now and its accompanying visual album. She's explained on multiple occasions that the project was inspired by her love story with Affleck. However, elsewhere in the new documentary (which details the creation of the ambitious self-funded film), Lopez says that Affleck isn't fully "comfortable being the muse."

“I don’t think [Ben] is very comfortable with me doing all of this,” she says during the documentary. “But he loves me, he knows I’m an artist, and he’s gonna support me in every way he can, because he knows you can’t stop me from making the music I made … he doesn’t want to stop me. But that doesn’t mean he’s comfortable being the muse.”

According to People, the name of the documentary comes from a sentimental present that Affleck gifted to J.Lo on the duo's first Christmas after reconnecting. It was a book containing all of their letters and emails from the last 20 years titled, The Greatest Love Story Never Told.

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