Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are in it for the long haul. Lopez covers the latest issue of, and she talks about how her and Affleck being in different points in their lives has changed their dynamic since rekindling their romance 18 years after they called off their engagement.Lopez, 52, is promoting her latest film,, and is clearly more guarded in what she says about her relationship.«I won't talk about it a lot,» she says in the interview which took place in late December, of her and 49-year-old Affleck getting back together. «We've both grown.
We're the same, and we're different. And that's what's nice.»«Yeah … having a second chance at real love … yeah,» she continues. «Like I said, we learned a lot.
We know what's real, what's not real. So it's just — the game has changed.»She doesn't see another breakup with Affleck in the future.«I don't think we would have got back together if we thought that was where it was headed,» she says. «We feel like what we found again is so much more important, and how we protect that and how we live our lives — what to share, what not to share — is the balance that we have now, the benefit of experience and the wisdom that we gained over the years.»In the candid interview, Lopez opens up about constantly feeling like an «underdog» in the business since she didn't grow up wealthy or with industry connections.
She recalls how she was treated badly when she and Affleck first got together, and her producing partner, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, notes that Lopez was never given credit for her own success, which at the time included a No.
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