Everything Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck said about their romance in their documentary

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been through a lot together over the years.

To mark the couple’s second wedding anniversary on Tuesday, July 16, PEOPLE looks back at everything the couple said about each other in Lopez’s Prime Video documentary. The greatest love story never told.

In the documentary, which the “Waiting for Tonight” singer made together with This is me…now: A love storyFans were given a behind-the-scenes look at the making of her ambitious film project. The documentary includes interviews with her inner circle, collaborators and Affleck.

Here’s everything the couple, who are currently starting a new chapter in their marriage and spending a lot of time together, said about each other in the documentary, which premiered in February.

Despite some concerns, Affleck supported her artistic expression

Right at the beginning of the documentary, Lopez had the idea of ​​creating a project that would deal with her love story with the Hypnotic The actress faced resistance in her inner circle.

Lopez still follows her heart, explaining that while Affleck was never one to talk openly about his personal life, he supported her artistic expression.

“I don’t think he’s comfortable with me doing all this, but he loves me, he knows I’m an artist, and he’s going to support me in any way he can,” Lopez, 54, says in the documentary. “He doesn’t want to stop me… But that doesn’t mean he’s comfortable being the muse.”

Affleck, 51, adds: “Jen is really inspired by this experience that artists have in their work. They are inspired, their personal lives move you. I know that as a writer and director I certainly do the same things. But things that are private, I’ve always felt sacred and special because they are partly private. So that was kind of an adjustment for me.”

At the very end of the documentary, the circle closes when Affleck realizes that the documentary is not about him absolutely – it was about Lopez’s journey to self-love.

“I’m not really excited about being in the making-of documentary about my personal life, so I’m relieved that… it looks like I might be in it, but I’m not really. I was worried for no reason,” he says. “The film wasn’t about me. It was about the ability to love yourself, and that love story is a hell of a lot harder to find than Prince Charming.”

Their love story inspired her deeply

In The greatest love story never toldLopez speaks openly about how much her story – and Affleck – mean to her.

“We’re totally different people now, but we’re the same and we still love each other. 100%. I never turned away from you. I just put it here,” she says, referring to their 2004 split just three days before their planned wedding.

Elsewhere in the documentary, Lopez gets emotional as she says no one ever believed in her like Affleck did.

“What he said and what he saw in me and what he made me believe about myself, it all comes from love. Because no one else could have shown me that about myself,” Lopez says through tears. “It’s very moving. I didn’t think much of myself and that’s why the world didn’t think much of me. It all fit together. That’s how it is. See it. Believe it.”

For this reason, the separation was a great burden for her.

“All those years were really hard because not only did I feel like I had lost the love of my life,” she says. “I felt like I had lost the best friend I ever had and I couldn’t talk about it for so many years. That was the hardest part.”

Affleck broke off Lopez’s childhood trauma

At one point in the documentary, Lopez looks back on her upbringing and her desire to be “seen,” one of the motivating factors behind her unwavering work ethic.

Affleck then describes her childhood trauma from his perspective, saying that she felt “emotionally neglected as a child.”

“We’re learning more and more that it doesn’t necessarily have to be the kind of trauma that involves being locked in a basement for a year to leave scars. In fact, they’re more deceptive when they’re harder to pin down,” he says.

He also says that when someone is “extremely successful” on social media, it’s easier to assume that they “live the happiest life in the world.”

“Like alcohol, you find that there isn’t enough alcohol in all the liquor stores in the world to replenish your supply, and in Jennifer’s case, I don’t think there are enough trailers or films or records or anything like that to soothe the part of you that still feels longing and pain. Ultimately, that’s the work you have to do yourself,” he concludes.

They differ in their approach to the public – but are looking for a compromise

Looking back on the reasons for their separation in 2004, Affleck says the trigger was “massive surveillance of our private lives.”

Lopez tells her side of things: “We bought a Bentley and drove around town in it. It was as if we were saying, ‘Yes, take pictures of us.’ But that wasn’t it. We were just celebrating our life and our love.”

When the couple decided to get back together, Affleck didn’t want their relationship to be in the spotlight again. Then he realized that it requires compromise.

“I had a clear sense of boundaries with the press initially, whereas Jen, I think, didn’t object to it as much as I did. I objected to it very strongly. When we got back together, I said, ‘Listen, a relationship on social media is one of the things I don’t want,'” he says.

He continues: “Then I realized that wasn’t a fair request. It’s like marrying a ship captain and saying, ‘I don’t like the water.’ We’re just two people with different approaches trying to find compromises.”

They found forgiveness for each other

In a sit-down interview in which Affleck interviews Lopez, who Air Actor asks the Atlas Actress, whether she has forgiven him.

“When I first read the script, it seemed like the inciting incident that caused all this pain was our breakup,” Affleck says. “I thought, ‘Wow. Nobody did anything wrong. It was mutual.’ I think in order for us to get over it, we have to somehow forgive it. Forgive each other. Forgive me?”

The clip stops before Lopez can answer, and toward the end of the documentary she finally answers the question.

“I have forgiven you for everything. I think I need to forgive myself for some things.”

The greatest love story never told is now streaming on Prime Video.