Newlyweds Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have a blended family and it sounds like things are going well.

released Tuesday, Lopez talked about reuniting with her former fiancé of whom she said she “never shied away from the fact that for me, I always felt like there was a real love there, a true love there.”

“People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life,” she told the publication of Affleck. “When we reconnected, those feelings for me were still very real.”

Lopez had words of praise for Garner during the interview, saying the actress is “an amazing co-parent, and [Garner and Affleck] work really well together.”

“The transition is a process that needs to be handled with so much care,” Lopez said of their blended family.