Ben Affleck is ready to start dating after his split from Jennifer Lopez - but he has a non-negotiable

Ben Affleck yet feels fresh to commencement making love again aft his very nationalist divided from Jennifer Lopez – but he only wants to day women who are sober, insiders claim.

The recovering alcoholic, 52, rekindled his romance pinch Lopez, 55, successful 2021, but nan brace revenge for divorcement successful August pursuing months of speculation that their marriage had crumbled.

Affleck reportedly struggled pinch nan 'tough’ fallout from their split, which served to show him really important it is to ne'er jeopardize his sobriety. 

'Ben has not fixed up connected relationships and yet feels fresh to move guardant and commencement making love again,' an insider told DailyMail.com exclusively. 

'He is not going to jump into thing superior until nan divorcement is finalized but that does not mean he cannot date.' 

They continued: 'He only wants to day personification who is sober aliases successful recovery. These past 2 years person been reliable for Ben and arsenic he originates to heal, 1 point is very clear: his betterment comes earlier anything. He is not going to put his sobriety successful jeopardy.’ 

After Affleck moved retired of nan $68 cardinal mansion he shared pinch Lopez and into his ain rental bachelor pad successful Brentwood, California, friends feared that he could relapse as a consequence of nan strain of specified a nationalist split.

DailyMail.com reported astatine nan clip that Lopez turned to nan actor's ex-wife Jennifer Garner for thief arsenic she was 1 of a fewer group who could connection advice.

Affleck was reportedly upset by nan news that group feared he would relapse aft a lengthy bout of sobriety.

‘Ben tries to debar reference nan news but it did upset him that group thought he relapsed because he had not,' nan root said. 

'Like each alcoholic, Ben conscionable wakes up pinch 1 extremity successful mind. To enactment sober for that day.'

Affleck has been unfastened astir his addiction conflict and first stopped drinking successful 1997.

'I conscionable wanted to stop,' he told a newsman successful 1998. 'I started regretting immoderate things I did erstwhile I was drunk. It's funny to beryllium obnoxious aliases retired of control, but past it's like, "I deliberation I wounded that person's feelings", "I made a fool of myself" aliases "I didn't want to buss that girl". I person almost nary inhibitions, truthful it's vulnerable for me.'

He sought curen for alcoholism successful 2001 and again went to rehab successful 2017 and 2018, aft Garner - pinch whom he shares children, Violet, Seraphina (who now goes by Fin) and boy Samuel - staged an involution pinch nan thief of a sober coach astatine his home.

Speaking to The New York Times successful 2020, he explained: 'I drank comparatively usually for a agelong time. What happened was that I started drinking much and much erstwhile my matrimony was falling apart.

'This was 2015, 2016. My drinking, of course, created much marital problems.'

He admitted that emotion 'trapped' during his matrimony to Garner played a portion successful why he started drinking.

The Gone Girl prima went connected to show The Hollywood Reporter: 'The thought that I was blaming my woman for my drinking. To beryllium clear, my behaviour is my work entirely. The constituent that I was trying to make was a sad one.'

He continued: 'I was trying to say, "Hey, look, I was drinking excessively much, and nan little happy you become, whether it’s your job, your marriage, it’s conscionable that arsenic your life becomes much difficult, if you’re doing things to capable a spread that aren’t healthy, you’re going to commencement doing much of those things." I deliberation I was beautiful articulate astir that.'

The character explained his thought process during those acheronian times arsenic he recalled: 'You cognize I was for illustration "I can't time off origin of my kids, but I'm not happy. What do I do?"

'And what I did was portion a vessel of scotch and autumn dormant connected nan couch, which turned retired not to beryllium nan solution.' 

Lopez and Affleck were famously engaged successful nan early 2000s earlier breaking up, only to reunite - and later wed - successful July 2022 earlier holding different ceremonial 1 period later.

Their first two-year romance was highly publicized and nan aggravated scrutiny connected their narration was difficult for nan mates to handle.

Lopez revenge for divorcement successful August, marking what would person been their 2nd wedding anniversary. Their charismatic day of separation was listed arsenic April 26, 2024.

The On nan Floor vocalist yet collapsed her soundlessness connected their grounded national this month, describing her heartbreak arsenic ‘sad’ and ‘scary’ successful a risqué sprout pinch Interview magazine.

Lopez, who did not sanction Affleck, added that she is ‘not looking for anybody' correct now and suggested that her ex did not clasp each of her flaws.

Affleck reportedly had a little fling pinch Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s daughter, Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy, 36, successful nan aftermath of their split.

Page Six was nan first to study nan news aft nan brace were spotted getting ace cozy astatine nan Polo Lounge successful Beverly Hills. 

A root told DailyMail.com astatine nan time: 'Ben and Kick had a fling earlier he sewage backmost together pinch JLo. They met because Ben is from Boston and erstwhile you unrecorded successful Boston, nan Kennedy family is royalty.' 

The root stressed that nan pair's romance did not ever overlap pinch nan actor's rekindled narration pinch Lopez.