They are getting divorced, but they’ll still be roomies.
When you decide to separate from your long-term partner, a little space is in order.
That’s why Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, whose divorce announcement was made yesterday, are going to live in the family home together.
Wait, what?
Well, when your house is a palatial 9,000-square-foot palace-type abode, you can avoid one another with ease by simply choosing a wing.
I’m envisioning Affleck in a “man-cave” style space with his buddies playing poker, Budweiser in hand. Garner, she’ll probably refurb her part of the house to signify a new beginning. She may also get a haircut.
The Bennifer II years… Post continues after gallery.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck.
US Weekly reports that while Affleck will live on the property, he won’t be in the main house.
Now, if my partner and I were to break up and continue cohabiting, we’d probably run into each other from time to time (in the bathroom, the kitchen, the bedroom and the couch, mostly). But it would save us from having to split our cat evenly in two.
Bennifer II shouldn’t have much trouble avoiding each other, unless their kids undertake a Parent Trap-style reunion.
Their house in Pacific Palisades property in LA cost $17.5 million when they bought it in 2009. I wonder how many guest bedrooms that buys you? I’m going to say 12. Twelve bedrooms.
Here is an aerial view of the small city family home.
The pair have said that they are “going forward with love and friendship for one another” and a “commitment to co-parenting” their three children, Violet, 9, Seraphina, 6, and Samuel, 3.
Good luck to them.
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Top Comments
I called off my relationship with my partner, with whom i have children, a long time ago, yet we have still 'cohabitated' for the past few years, as it has suited each of us, for various reasons - that, and we've sort of been stuck with each other financially. It's all been relatively amicable (for the most part), and a non issue as he spends most of the year on the road for work. I'm getting to the point where i want to formalise our separation, by moving out, filing consent orders, and moving on. Its something we talk about very frequently, with no animosity. So it can work, even in the 'real world', with Mr and Mrs Average, where properties aren't very big. You just become like two house mates, with your own lives, no expectations of each other, he sees the kids when he can. Very civil really. If it works for the couple, why not.