Connie Chung Shares Secret of 40-Year Marriage to Maury Povich

Connie Chung And Maury Povich have discovered the secret to a 40-year marriage.

“If you really break it down, Maury and I have always done our own thing. I believe that you don’t have to be friends with all of his friends, and he doesn’t have to be friends with all of my friends. He can do what he wants to do, and I do what I want to do,” Chung, 78, said. We weekly only during promotion Connie: A Memoir“We always get together and eat together – sometimes we have lunch together – but we don’t get in each other’s way.”

In Chung’s memoir, published on Tuesday, September 17, the former news anchor opened up about her longtime romance with Povich, 85, with an entire chapter devoted to their love story.

“I love Maury with all my heart, and I know he loves me very much, but sometimes, you know, I don’t necessarily like him,” Chung wrote. “I think the feeling is mutual.”

Explain this rule further to UsChung explained that she could “never spend the whole day” with Povich.

“That’s why I think — I know I love him, but if we spend too much time together, then I don’t like him,” she joked.

Chung and Povich had a long-distance relationship for seven years before marrying in 1984. (They adopted son Matthew Povich (after his birth in 1995.)

“I knew he was going to be The One, but I didn’t go there and he didn’t go there. We were both single and enjoying our freedom,” she told Us. “When I was ready to be tied up, he wasn’t ready. When he was ready to be tied up, I wasn’t ready. It was a back and forth, and we built this relationship slowly for a long time.”

At one point, Chung and Povich lived on opposite sides of the country, she in Los Angeles and he in Philadelphia.

“He was such a bad boy that I said, ‘Hey, let’s take a six-month time out.’ And I think that was a good thing,” she said. After the six months, Chung wrote that she and Povich met halfway — literally, at a wedding in Texas. It wasn’t until she moved back to New York City in 1984 that their future fully began.

“Without Maury, I would never have had the career I had. He has been my foundation, my pillar of strength, my love, my partner in every way, for decades,” she wrote in the book. “He helped me climb my treacherous path. I always thought I could make it without him. The man inside me told me I didn’t need to depend on anyone. I was just a white man, just like him. Now I know I couldn’t live without Maury.”

Connie: A Memoir is out now.