{"id":11587,"date":"2024-08-21T00:37:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T00:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2024-08-21T01:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:27:07","slug":"as-lopez-files-for-divorce-from-affleck-should-you-reunite-with-an-ex-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=11587","title":{"rendered":"As Lopez Files for Divorce From Affleck, Should You Reunite With an Ex-Partner?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck show, rekindling an old romance is risky. We asked couples counselors what you should ask before diving back in.<\/p>\n

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When the superstars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck married in 2022, decades after calling off their initial engagement, it seemed like the stuff of a romantic Hollywood blockbuster.<\/p>\n

\u201cLove is beautiful,\u201d Ms. Lopez wrote after<\/a> the couple\u2019s Las Vegas nuptials. \u201cLove is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Ms. Lopez filed for divorce from Mr. Affleck on Tuesday after two years of marriage, ending months of frenzied media speculation<\/a> about their shaky union, and highlighting a decidedly unromantic truth: Reuniting with an ex-partner does not guarantee a happy ending.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have certainly seen people who are in long-term happy relationships who got back together after having broken up,\u201d said Elizabeth Earnshaw, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Philadelphia. \u201cI would say that is the exception to the rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Many couples counselors said they recommended taking an almost clinical approach to reuniting with an ex \u2014 even (or especially) if you are swept up in the thrill of rediscovering old passions. Here are four questions therapists recommend asking.<\/p>\n