In Memoriam: Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas, the Perfect Tabloid Couple
Celebrities

The era of Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas has come to a close, and what an era it’s been!
Somehow the pair best encapsulated what it meant to be a pandemic couple, due in part to the fact that their relationship (as far as we know) lived and died between March 2020 and this week. But Affleck and de Armas were given to other pandemic-specific couples’ behavior, too, seeming to participate in what I’ve termed “relationship accelerationism,” the practice of rushing through the intermediary steps of dating and jumping right to the serious stuff, like moving in together, which the two did in December—apparently to little success. The fast-tracked relationship has always been typical of celebrities, but I digress!
People reports that de Armas was the one to break it off with Affleck, primarily because their relationship was too “complicated,” one source told the outlet. Another source, however, tells us that the break-up was mutual.