Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s incompatibility finally is what led to their cut up.

“It was increasingly obvious they weren’t an excellent match,” a supply solely tells Us Weekly about how Lopez, 55, and Affleck, 52, tried to “make it work” by going to remedy. “It boiled right down to [the fact that] they’re two completely different folks.”

In response to the insider, the estranged couple selected to separate after they realized they weren’t on the identical web page.

“She got here to the belief issues weren’t going to alter and so they had been incompatible,” the supply provides. “Spending time aside — it turned apparent it wouldn’t work.”

Us confirmed on Tuesday, August 20, that Lopez filed for divorce on the two-year anniversary of her and Affleck’s Georgia wedding ceremony ceremony. She listed the date of separation as April 26, submitting the submitting herself as a substitute of by way of an legal professional.

Lopez and Affleck’s completely different outlooks on life finally precipitated them to float aside forward of the divorce submitting.

“Jennifer loves luxurious, mansions, jets, yachts, crimson carpets and all issues glamorous. Ben has by no means preferred these issues,” the supply notes to Us. “Except he’s selling work, he doesn’t just like the highlight.”

And the tens of millions spent on their over-the-top mansion was an element that spelled the tip for the couple. “If there was one closing straw, it was Jennifer convincing Ben to purchase that large mansion,” says the second supply. “It wasn’t what he wished or who he’s.”

The $68 million Beverly Hills dwelling was put in the marketplace earlier this summer time, with Affleck buying a extra modest $20 million five-bedroom pad in late July.

Affleck and Lopez had been first linked after assembly on the set of Gigli in 2001. They had been initially engaged from 2002 to 2004 earlier than deciding to name it quits.

The actress moved on with Marc Anthony, whom she married in 2004. The exes, who cut up in 2011, share twins Emme and Max, now 16. Affleck went on to marry Jennifer Garner in 2005. After 10 years of marriage, the duo introduced their choice to half methods in 2015. They share kids, Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12.

After practically twenty years, Lopez and Affleck reunited in 2021 after her cut up from ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. Affleck proposed for a second time in 2022, and so they eloped to Las Vegas earlier than celebrating their union with family and friends later that 12 months.

Lopez and Affleck sparked breakup rumors after their final crimson carpet look in February for the discharge of her film This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.

Within the months because the occasion, Lopez and Affleck had been seen sporadically carrying — and never carrying — their wedding ceremony rings. Lopez, nevertheless, was seen on a number of events spending time with Affleck’s children — and the supply tells Us the duo’s kids are nonetheless in touch with one another.

Earlier than information broke about their cut up, Lopez praised Affleck for all the time supporting her.

“He loves me, he is aware of I’m an artist and he’s gonna help me in each approach he can as a result of he is aware of he can’t cease me from making the music that I made and writing the phrases that I wrote,” she stated in her documentary The Best Love Story By no means Advised, which Affleck appeared in. “However that doesn’t imply he’s snug being the muse.”

Affleck did point out when he was on display that he felt the personal moments of their relationship had been “sacred and particular,” admitting, “This was one thing of an adjustment for me.”

With reporting by Andrea Simpson