It’s been six months since we first learned that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner had separated, and after all that time, the couple is still suffering through one of the most confusing relationship arrangements since Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s “conscious uncoupling.”
Sources recently told People magazine that Ben and Jen find living together to be “annoying,” but they’re continuing to cohabit for the sake of their kids.
Even more baffling is the fact that half a year after mutually deciding to call it quits, neither party has taken any steps to end their marriage.
“Jen feels that Ben gave up working on the marriage, so it’s up to him to file,” a source tells Us magazine.
The insider adds that Affleck has a “strategy as to when and where” he will take legal action, adding, “Ben will file for divorce when he is ready.”
The source adds that while Ben is still living on the sprawling property that he co-owns with Jen, the two of them have very little contact with one another:
“Ben and Jen are together only for the kids, not romantically,” says the insider. “They are almost never together alone without the kids. They don’t hang out. It’s a cordial relationship.”
Well, no wonder Ben hasn’t filed for divorce! Based on that description, it sounds like the typical Hollywood marriage!
