Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were papped out shopping yesterday in Santa Monica. They were there with their daughter, Serafina, and one of her friends. We’ve seen quite a few paparazzi photos of Affleck and Garner out together following the rumors that they’re headed for a high profile divorce. It’s somewhat rare that they run errands together so often. Without issuing a statement, these two are making their intentions clear.

Most of those breakup stories were based on the circumstantial but concrete evidence that Affleck was spotted in a remote area of Canada around the time of Garner’s birthday, and was not wearing his wedding ring. There’s video evidence to show this. Affleck has also been seen gambling in Vegas lately, which is pretty normal for him, and he spent mother’s day with his own mother instead of Garner, the mother of his children. At least one blind item heavily suggests that Affleck was out with another woman while he was in Canada. There’s a reason why sites publish blind items instead of stories quoting anonymous sources, so I wouldn’t put much stock in that.

Radar Online has a slide show of these photos and points to the two images below (plus a couple more) as evidence that Affleck was checking out another woman’s butt. Given whom we’re talking about, this is entirely possible. I doubt Affleck would be this blatant, though, especially with multiple paparazzi there. It’s more likely that the woman made a joke or that Affleck is smiling at something else. She’s on the phone, so maybe she said something funny to a friend.

There also seems to be a lot of tension between these two, but again there are multiple paparazzi bothering them and they’re out with kids. Who knows what the photographers are shouting at them. I want these two to work out, damnit, and I don’t want Affleck to fall back into his old patterns. He seems to be toeing the line for now.

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