""You have to be smart about what you can and can't handle, and I could not handle what was out there," Garner told the magazine. "But what was out there," Garner said, "was not what was hard. The fact of it is what was hard. The actual breaking up of a family is what was hard. Losing a true partnership and friendship is what was hard.""
""The biggest regret of my life is this divorce," the actor told The New York Times back in 2020. "Shame is really toxic. There is no positive byproduct of shame. It's just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-worth and self-loathing.""
""There's no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue. The truth is, when you talk to somebody, 'Hey, what happened?' Well, there is no, 'This is what happened,'" he told GQ last year. "It's just a story about people trying to figure out their lives and relationships in ways that we all sort of normally do.""
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck separated in 2015 and finalized their divorce in 2018. The most difficult aspect of the separation was the actual breaking up of the family and the loss of a true partnership and friendship. External public scrutiny around the split proved unmanageable. Ben Affleck later described the divorce as his biggest regret and associated shame with toxic low self-worth and self-loathing. Affleck married Jennifer Lopez in 2022 and finalized that divorce in January 2025. The split contained no public scandal or intrigue and reflected ordinary attempts to figure out life and relationships.
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