The day Jennifer Lopez decided to file for divorce from Ben Affleck has quite a significance.

We weekly confirmed that Lopez, 55, filed for divorce from Affleck, 51, in a Los Angeles court on Tuesday, August 20. The date marks the second anniversary of the couple’s second wedding ceremony, where they celebrated their nuptials with friends and family at Affleck’s estate in Savannah, Georgia, in 2022. (Affleck and Lopez secretly married in Las Vegas in July 2022.)

Lopez stated that her and Affleck’s separation date was April 26. The actress is said to have filed the application herself and not through a lawyer.

The news of the split comes amid months of reports that Lopez and Affleck’s marriage was on the rocks after the duo had not been seen together for weeks. In May Us confirmed that Affleck has moved out of his and Lopez’s shared home in Beverly Hills.

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After the couple did not publicly announce their second wedding anniversary in July, a source exclusively shared Us that Affleck and Lopez were “doing their own thing” while working on a possible reconciliation.

“Jennifer suggested they just take time to figure it out,” the insider explained, reiterating that the duo were “living separate lives” at the time.

Lopez and Affleck have a long history together. Their romance began in 2002 after they fell in love on the set of their film. GigliThe couple became engaged but called off the wedding in 2004. Affleck later moved on with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner with whom he has three children: Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 11. Lopez, in turn, was married to Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014. In 2008, twins Max and Emme, 16, were born. (Lopez was previously married to Ojani Noa for 11 months in 1997 and to Cris Judd from 2001 to 2002. From 2019 to 2021, she was engaged to Alex Rodriguez.)

Nearly two decades after their first breakup, Affleck and Lopez rekindled their relationship in 2021. The actor proposed to her for a second time the following year. During a January 2023 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!Lopez talked about her and Affleck’s decision to elope.

“We were supposed to get married in Savannah in August, the family was supposed to be there, everyone was supposed to be there, and it was so stressful,” Lopez explained. “A month before, and I don’t know if you know this, but 20 years ago we were supposed to get married. And then everything kind of fell apart, and this time I definitely had a little bit of PTSD and was like, ‘Is this happening?'”

She continued at the time: “One day Ben just said, ‘Fuck it, let’s just go to Vegas and get married tonight.’ He was like, ‘Go to rehearsal (for your show), when you come back I’ll have everything ready.'”