Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were spotted spending some quality time together over the weekend after enjoying Thanksgiving as a family.
Affleck, 52, was photographed in the driver’s seat of a car with Garner, 52, hopping in the passenger side after picking up some bagels on Saturday, December 7. The exes reportedly had breakfast together and then headed out for a drive in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood before heading to Affleck’s home.
The former couple — who share children Violet, 19, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12 — recently spent Thanksgiving as a a family, teaming up to help feed the unhoused community with charity organization Midnight Mission on November 28. Their kids joined them in their efforts to give back to the less fortunate.
Affleck and Garner have maintained an amicable coparenting relationship following their divorce nearly a decade ago. The duo were married from 2005 to 2015 before finalizing their divorce in 2018. Affleck went on to marry Jennifer Lopez in 2022, but the pair split earlier this year. Garner has been dating businessman John Miller since 2018.
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In 2020, Affleck reflected on his divorce from Garner, calling it “the biggest regret of my life” in an interview with The New York Times. “Shame is really toxic,” he said at the time. “There is no positive byproduct of shame. It’s just stewing in a toxic, hideous feeling of low self-worth and self-loathing.”
He added, “I have certainly made mistakes. I have certainly done things that I regret. But you’ve got to pick yourself up, learn from it, learn some more, try to move forward.”
Garner has been a pillar of support for her ex-husband during some turbulent times, including his recent divorce from Lopez, 55.
“Ben and Jennifer are friends, and they have a great coparenting relationship,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in August. The pair have a “mutual understanding that their kids come first,” the insider noted, adding that the exes “also get along really well.”
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“There’s a deep level of trust and respect between them,” the source continued. “[Affleck] has confided in Jen in a lot of ways… especially lately when things with J.Lo haven’t been so great in recent months.”
During an interview on Molly Sims and Emese Gormley’s “Lipstick on the Rim” podcast last month, Garner shared some insightful pieces of advice that her mom, Pat, gave her. One anecdote stood out: “Don’t marry a man thinking you can change him.”
In a tongue-in-cheek, self-aware manner, a laughing Garner stated that she is going to “really work on that one.”
