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Unless you live in a particularly deep crater on the moon and spend most of your free time with your fingers in your ears going "la, la, la, la…" then you’ve heard by now that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are getting divorced.

Couples divorce all the time, but for some reason, this separation has inspired more wild theories than the Kennedy assassination and the ending of LOST combined.

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Some say Matt Damon drove Ben and Jen apart. Others believe Ben wants to reconcile with Jennifer Lopez. Someone probably believes Affleck just got sick of hearing the word "Bennifer."

Like we said, there’s been a lot of speculation surrounding this breakup, but most of it centers around Ben and his penchant for bad behavior.

A new report in People magazine even goes so far as to suggest Ben’s love of booze, broads and black jack goes deeper than the usual midlife crisis, and is actually part of some weird, old-school philosophy:

"He’s like a ’50s dad," says one insider. "He thinks work is your priority and providing money for your family is your priority, and raising the kids day to day and making a nice house is the wife’s priority." 

"It leaves too much of the burden on Jen to be a mom and dad to the children when she also has a career…Ben is a good dad when he is around, but he has so many outside interests and personal issues to get beyond."

We could see how that sort of thikingg could cause serious problems. Of course, our favorite theory is that Jen was fine with Ben’s "outside interests"…until those interests started to include Emily Ratajkowski’s boobs.