Jennifer Lopez said she and Ben Affleck would ‘do things better the second time’ before their 2022 marriage

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The New York Times that both she and Affleck had learned a big lesson from their 2004 breakup. The lesson? “To hold it sacred,” she said, referring to their relationship. “You have to do what feels good to you all the time.” “But at the same time,” she continued, “you learn from the past, you do things better the second time.” “There’s a part of it that, yes, we’re together.

But there’s a part of it that’s not, you know, being so open the way we were when we were so young and in love many years ago.”Striking an optimistic note, she added, “You can’t live life and think that things are just mistakes: I just messed up there, I messed up there.

No, it’s all lessons.”She explained, “It’s really what can you extrapolate from it that is going to help you grow and go to the next level of understanding yourself, finding yourself and being able to be at peace with your life, at peace with who you are.”Affleck echoed his future wife’s sentiments when speaking with The Wall Street Journal in 2021, shortly after they got back together. “One of the harder lessons that I have learned is that it’s not wise to share everything with the world,” Affleck said.

The “Argo” director also spoke of being grateful for “second chances.” “I am very lucky in my life in that I have benefited from second chances, and I am aware that other people don’t even get first chances,” he said.“I’ve had second chances in my career.