From Bennifer to Burton-Taylor: why some couples can’t stop making and breaking up

From Bennifer to Burton-Taylor: why some couples can’t stop making and breaking up

As Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck go their separate ways again, why won’t some just call time on doomed affairs?

We have all witnessed the folie à deux, the kind of relationship in which high drama is mistaken for passionate love and both parties find themselves in the limbo state of being unable to function either together or apart. Some of us may even have had more direct experience of this particular romantic phenomenon.

But as the world continues to absorb the pearl-clutching news that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (aka Bennifer) are divorcing after a two-year marriage that came two decades after their first engagement was called off, it may be an appropriate moment to ask what compels people to go back to a failed relationship – to return, as it were, to the scene of the crying.

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