Bennifer Are Not Married, Not Divorced, But a Secret Third Thing (Leos)

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It was the Sunday before Christmas, and all through L.A., blended families were figuring out how exactly they’d divide the special day. Forty-one months after their Las Vegas elopement and 15 months since their divorce filing (and about 480 days since J.Lo captioned her divorce photo dump with “Oh it was a summer”), Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (nee Affleck) reunited at Brentwood Country Mart in Los Angeles with Affleck’s son Samuel. “They met up and went shopping together. Jen and Ben seemed fine,” an insider told People as December wound to a close. “The focus was mostly on Sam.”

“He was excited and chatty. They shopped for gifts in several high-end stores,” the source, almost certainly Lopez’s manager Benny Medina, continued. “Jen asked a lot of questions and picked up gifts for Ben’s kids. They arrived and left separately.”

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are not married, and they’re not really divorced (at least not divorced in the way my parents are divorced, where they never speak but we all share the same HBO account).