Gwyneth Paltrow - Garner 'Unhappy' With Paltrow's Relationship With Ex Affleck

GWYNETH PALTROW is so close to her former boyfriend BEN AFFLECK, his wife JENNIFER GARNER finds it difficult to tolerate, according to a new report.

The former Hollywood couple dated in 1998 before splitting the following year (99) and starting their own separate families with new partners.

The actress is now married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and the pair has a five-year-old daughter, Apple, and son Moses, three, while Affleck and Garner are parents to Violet, four, and six-month-old Seraphina.

Paltrow has maintained such a close relationship with Affleck, she sent him a personal letter congratulating him on his newborn child in January (09), causing his wife to get annoyed.

A source tells Fox News, "Ben and Jen got one of Gwyneth’s famous notes this year just after Seraphina was born. It was very nice, but it was a little too personal. Gwyneth made sure to mention how she was happy that Ben was finally creating the family he had always wanted, a family, which the two of them discussed in depth when they were dating. It just rubs Jen the wrong way.

"Jen will always allow Ben to have contact and friendship with Gwyneth. But she doesn’t always like it.”