Jennifer Garner‘s boyfriend John Miller is still struggling with the whole Ben Affleck thing!
It’s been said that John was irritated that his girlfriend was spending so much time trying to mend things between her ex-husband and his then-wife Jennifer Lopez amid their divorce last year. Now that Jen and Ben have continued to grow closer and closer, the other man in her life is getting more frustrated!
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According to some friends of the couple spilling to DailyMail.com, the 13 Going on 30 star took on the role of “marriage counselor” to Ben and J.Lo — and felt forced to “play mediator” amid their marriage woes last year. None of this has sat right with the Cali Group CEO, an insider dished on Monday. So how is he coping?
“John is trying to deal with Ben and Jen’s relationship by mostly staying quiet, but it’s very hard to do that.”
It sounds like he’s tolerating Ben more than anything else:
“He knows that Ben has to be around as a father and he is more than OK with that, but he wants to be the man in the relationship.”
Oof. He still sounds kinda jealous! Stressing how detached from the Argo star he tries to be, the source continued:
“John only talks about Ben when Jen talks about Ben or when their kids talk about him. He doesn’t bring him up unprompted.”
John has been linked to the actress since 2018, by the way. The fact that he still has all these hard feelings for Ben says a lot! This is clearly a sore subject — so, it can’t be easy for him to see the exes “closer than they’ve ever been” after Ben’s divorce and the stressful LA fires.
We get that blended families and divorces can be complicated, but if John’s gonna be around long-term, he better get used to Ben or this could become a big problem. The source acknowledged this, sharing:
“John respects Ben, but less is more because John wants Jen for himself. He still needs to figure out how to compartmentalise it all.”
FWIW, John shares two teenage children with his own ex-wife Caroline Campbell, so he has personal experience with the challenges of co-parenting with an ex. That helps. Hopefully, he and Jen can get some quality alone time so he can put these feelings to rest.
Thoughts? Are you surprised he’s still so jealous? Does he have a reason to be? Sound OFF (below).
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