Ben Affleck confesses his kids don't want his relationship advice after failed marriages to Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Garner

Ben Affleck has revealed his three kids refuse to take relationship advice from him after his two failed marriages. 

Affleck, 54, shares Violet, 20, Fin, 17, and Sam, 14 with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, also 54.

While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, the actor said he sometimes tries to impart wisdom to his children – to which they respond with snark.

The father of three shared: 'I’ll say, "You know, well the thing about that relationship there…" and the 17-year-old turns to me and goes, "Oh, like you’re the expert on relationships?"'

Affleck and Garner were married from 2005 until their separation in 2015, and their divorce was finalized in 2018.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker was later married to Jennifer Lopez, 57, from 2022 to 2024 – after they previously called off their engagement in 2004.

The Boston native explained to Kimmel: 'I give advice and try to talk to them, parent them as you do. What I found is that now it’s not only one teenager rolling their eyes.

'I’ll kind of launch into something at the dinner table and I’ll catch them giving each other looks and I realize I’m the caricature in this story.'

He said he always imagined himself being the 'cool dad' before his brood grew up to deliver sarcastic one-liners.

Affleck then shared an anecdote about Fin's cutting humor.

He recalled: 'I went to a bookstore with them... and there’s some book by a French guy and it’s called I’m Sorry for Everything, and my kid just turns to me dead pan [and] goes, "Oh look, dad, it’s your autobiography." 

It comes after the star recently explained why he cast Garner as his love interest in the crime/thriller Animals, but later recast her with Kerry Washington.

'I thought, God, Jen Garner would be amazing for this role,' he told Entertainment Weekly. 'It also has the added benefit of, like, both of us will see our kids more because we do a week and a week and back and forth. I thought, well, we can coordinate our schedules around it.'

In Animals, a mayoral candidate and his wife resort to extreme measures in a desperate bid to pay their son's ransom, 'revealing dark secrets they never intended to bring to light,' according to IMDb. 

Affleck said he realized he and his ex-wife would be acting out a rocky marriage onscreen, which might not look good, given their relationship history.

'I talked to Jen, and she was like, "We don’t wanna do that. You just get baggage,"' he said.

However, he added: 'I would love to work with her, frankly. She’s fabulous, and we’re really good friends, and I’m profoundly grateful to her, and we have a great thing.

'I still would wanna work with her in the future, but what you don’t wanna do is take the audience’s baggage and have it work against you, you know?'

The exes are sometimes seen running errands with their children, demonstrating their amicable co-parenting relationship. 

They have also been known to spend holidays together post-divorce.