Ben Affleck is getting palms on with Jennifer Garner … pulling his ex in for a decent hug at their son’s party.

The Hollywood exes spent some high quality household time collectively Sunday … skipping the Oscars for a paintball birthday bash for his or her son Samuel.

Ben’s bought his palms round Jen in a number of of the images … hugging her from the aspect as she shoots her paintball gun.

The optics are fairly attention-grabbing — it appears to be like like Ben is tremendous into Jen … and folk who had been there say Ben flirted together with his former flame all through the outing.

Factor is … our sources have repeatedly confused Ben and Jennifer are simply pals regardless of his current divorce from Jennifer Lopez … and we have been repeatedly advised Garner remains to be in a relationship with funding enterprise CEO John C. Miller.

However, primarily based on what Ben’s doing right here, that may all seem to be information to him.

The duo’s all the time hung out collectively since 2018 divorce, co-parenting their children and being there for one another in instances of want … like January’s L.A. wildfires.

Ben clearly had a good time with Jen — we beforehand confirmed you images of him smiling all lovingly at Jen … and now we see him hugging her.