Jennifer Lopez is already looking forward to married life with Ben Affleck and blending their two families, but she’s also still trying to live in the present moment.
During an appearance on Good Morning America on Thursday, the singer couldn’t stop talking about how “fulfilling” her rekindled relationship with the actor has been and how they’re both having the “best time” of their lives. She explained, “I love my career, but nothing is more fulfilling to me than being able to build my family with someone who I love deeply and is just as dedicated to family and to each other as we can be.” She went on to say that while she “love[s] the idea of the future and what we can create,” she still really wants “to savor the moment” and is working on how to “stay real present.”
That sentiment also aligns with recent reporting that Lopez would like to marry Affleck “sooner rather than later.” In May, a source confided to Us Weekly that “Jennifer will tell you she’s not in a rush to get married, but her friends think otherwise. The truth is that if Ben wanted to push this forward as early as this summer, she’d be totally down with that.” But more important than the ceremony itself is getting “the formalities out of the way so they can start their journey as man and wife sooner rather than later.”
Lopez and Affleck first met on the set of their 2002 film Gigli when the singer was still married to her second husband, Cris Judd. That summer, Lopez filed for divorce and the pair began publicly dating shortly after. By November, Affleck had proposed, but the couple ultimately decided to cancel their September 2003 wedding due to “excessive media attention,” breaking up officially by January of the following year. Although both went on to marry and divorce other people, the pair reconnected in early 2021, buying a $50 million mansion together in March and getting engaged for a second time in April of this year.
In February, the pop star also enthused to People that Affleck is the chosen family she’s been looking for her whole life. “It’s just that we’re all in a very beautiful moment,” she said. “I feel so lucky and happy and proud to be with him. It’s a beautiful love story that we got a second chance…I just feel very happy and lucky to be in a relationship that’s happy and loving, and I want to do everything I can to protect that and keep it safe.”