Why Ben Affleck Had 'Not Going Anywhere' Engraved on Jennifer Lopez's Engagement Ring

Lopez, who filed for divorce from Affleck on Aug. 20, previously shared the meaning behind the special message inside the 8.5-carat radiant-cut green diamond

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J-lo Newsletter Jennifer Lopez.

Jennifer Lopez's engagement ring from Ben Affleck was designed with many details symbolic of the couple's love story.

The 55-year-old singer, actress and entrepreneur, who filed for divorce from Affleck on Aug. 20 after two years of marriage, previously opened up about the meaning behind the ring.

The design, an 8.5-carat radiant-cut green diamond flanked by two half-moon accent diamonds and set on a platinum band, included an engraved message from Affleck reading, "not.going.anywhere."

“That's how he would sign his emails when we started talking again. Like 'Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere,'" Lopez revealed in an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music after her and Affleck's July 2022 nuptials.

The couple rekindled their romance in April 2021, 17 years after breaking off their engagement in 2004. (Affleck proposed with a 6-carat radiant-cut pink diamond ring from Harry Winston at the time.) In April 2022, Affleck proposed to Lopez for a second time.

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Jennifer Lopez Instagram Jennifer Lopez.

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Lopez shared the happy news via her On the JLo newsletter.

"Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed," the Atlas star wrote. "I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again, I was quite literally speechless and he said, 'is that a yes?' I said YES of course that's a YES."

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"It was nothing fancy at all, but it was the most romantic thing I could've ever imagined...just a quiet Saturday night at home, two people promising to always be there for each other,” she continued.

The star also shared that "green has always been my lucky color and now, for sure, it always will be."

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John Russo/OntheJLo Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck.

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Lopez and Affleck tied the knot in Las Vegas in July 2022 and hosted a larger wedding in Georgia the following month.

After reports of tension in the couple's marriage began circulating in May 2024, Lopez officially filed for divorce on Aug. 20.

"She tried really hard to make things work, and is heartbroken," a source told PEOPLE of the actress. “The kids are a top priority, as they always have been.”

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