You know that feeling when youre starting to sober up at a house party?
Well, I think, collectively, were all experiencing a similar sensation right now.
Except about Bennifer 2.0.
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Affleck massaging Lopezs bum on a yacht (for the second time!)
was all the evidence I needed that happily-ever-afters were real.
(And I dont mean that as a diss, its actually my key in.)
Maybe the whole way their relationship played out was… A little wild?
In case you arent totally clear on the story, let me clue you in.
The pair first met on the set of a very bad film,Gigli, in 2001.
By the time the movie had come out, theyd had a whirlwind romance absolutely chock full of PDA.
(I feel the same about restaurant bread baskets.)
Affleck took out full-page ads in trade mags to toast Lopez when she won awards.
They got engaged within a yearAffleck sealing the deal with an extremely Y2K pink diamond.
Maybe some fire emojis were DMed.
Perhaps a stay safe was commented.
Could a you up?
(Who didnt shoot a few bold shots in the pandemic?)
Whatever the case, the pair were drawn together.
They declared their obsession for each other in interviews.
There was their very public loved-up honeymoon in Paris,the matchy-matchy fits…
The world was hooked.
I do wonder why it was that so many of us were so transfixed by this relationship.
Was it because it was super nostalgic seeing the duo out together again?
One of my friends reckons that, as a culture, we all got caught in dicksand.
You know the plot of nearly every rom-com?
(It was the plot ofWhen Harry Met Sally,13 Going on 30, even the bloodyLizzie McGuire Movie.)
I mean, who doesnt hope that their life might, at some point, have some rom-com flourish?
Because if it could happen for them, it could happen for us.
Of course, it appears not to have happened for them, which is a shame.
But at least it gave us all an opportunity to rewatch Afflecks cameo in Jenny From the Block.
