'We learned our lesson the first time. To hold it sacred.'
. The couple first began dating in 2002, and ended their relationship, thus calling off their engagement, in 2004. Now, the pair are back together, and have a new appreciation and awareness of how to handle love in the spotlight. , 52-year-old Lopez opens up about her and Affleck's romance, saying,"We learned our lesson the first time. To hold it sacred."
"You have to do what feels good to you all the time. But at the same time, you learn from the past, you do things better the second time," Lopez explains. "There’s a part of it that, yes, we’re together. But there’s a part of it that’s not, you know, being so open the way we were when we were so young and in love many years ago.
As for Lopez's very public romance and engagement to Alex Rodriguez, which ended shortly before she rekindled things with Affleck, she doesn't regret that period in her life either. “When you’re in things, you do what feels right. And I don’t beat myself up over ‘I wish I had done this differently’ or ‘Did I do too much?’” she tells the "That’s what was comfortable at the time. I did what I did. He did what he did. And it was fine. The relationship stuff had nothing to do with being public or not being public.
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