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Ben Affleck was spotted driving past his ex-wife Jennifer Garner's home in Los Angeles on Monday.
The 53-year-old actor looked relaxed while cruising in his matte black BMW and puffing on a cigarette.
He was nicely dressed in a dark suit jacket and button-up white shirt while sporting a greying beard.
It comes after the exes reunited to celebrate their son Samuel's 14th birthday with a paintball party in Castaic over the weekend.
In addition to Samuel, they also share Violet, 20, and Fin, 17.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker and Garner married in 2005, separated in 2015, and finalized their divorce three years later.
Ben Affleck was spotted driving past his ex-wife Jennifer Garner's home in Los Angeles on Monday
The 53-year-old actor looked relaxed while cruising in his matte black BMW and puffing on a cigarette
During an appearance on Bustle's One Nightstand podcast in February, Garner explained: 'When your kids grow up in two separate households, I become mom and dad, and he becomes dad and mom.
'You kind of can't help it, right? Because you don't have the benefit of both sides, the yin and yang being in the same house, so you have to have a bit of both in the way you parent.
'There's a little bit of loss in that, but there's also something gained in that ... You also just learn, it's made me let go and not focus so much on the bringing up.'
Affleck recently opened up about raising kids as a public figure.
'You put something on your children when you have a public life and that's complicated,' he told E! News in January.
'We really want to give them room to figure out what they want to do,' he said about not pressuring their children into any particular career.
He continued: 'I wouldn't push them into that. They're brilliant and lovely and wonderful and we love them and we're proud of them. And hope that they don't waste their life acting.'
Samuel and Fin are full-time students, while Violet – who is studying at Yale University – has found passion as an activist.
He was nicely dressed in a dark suit jacket and button-up white shirt while sporting a greying beard
It comes after the exes reunited to celebrate their son Samuel's 14th birthday with a paintball party over the weekend
Affleck and Garner separated in 2015 and finalized their divorce three years later; pictured with their kids in December 2018
While appearing on The Jennifer Hudson Show in February, Garner admitted her children think she is 'fully cringe.'
The 53-year-old actress said her brood finds her 'embarrassing.'
When asked what she does to gain 'cool points' from them, she said: 'I am fully cringe. I am only embarrassing.'
The former Alias star recently asked her offspring if they are planning to watch the second season of her latest Apple TV+ series, The Last Thing He Told Me.
'They were like, "Do you need us to?"' she hilariously revealed.
'But I mean, kids don't want to see their parents in... right? They don't want to see us cry, or see us have a romantic scene, or anything. We're just embarrassing.'
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