Connie Chung Shares the Secret to Her 40-Year Marriage to Maury Povich

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

“If you think about it, Maury and I have always had our own things. I think we don’t have to be friends with all his friends, and he doesn’t have to be friends with all my friends. He can do whatever he wants and I’ll do whatever I want,” said Chung, 78. We Weekly exclusively during the promotion Connie: Memoirs“We always get together for dinner — sometimes we have lunch together — but we don’t bother each other.”

In Chung’s memoir, released Tuesday, September 17, the former news anchor wrote about her longtime relationship with Povich, 85. There’s even an entire chapter dedicated to their romance.

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

Explain this line in more detail at WeChung explained that she “could never spend the whole day” with Povich.

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

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

“I knew he would be the one, but I wasn’t going and he wasn’t going. We were both single and enjoying our freedom,” she recalls. We“When I was ready to be tied down, he wasn’t ready. When he was ready to be tied down, I wasn’t ready. It was back and forth, and we slowly moved forward in this relationship for a long time.”

At one point, Chung and Povich lived on opposite ends 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 break.’ And I think that was a good thing,” she said. After the six months were up, Chung wrote that she and Povich met in the middle of the relationship, literally, at a wedding in Texas. It wasn’t until she returned to New York in 1984 that their future truly began.

“Without Maury, I could never have had the career I have had. He was my rock, my support, my love, my partner in every way, for decades,” she wrote in the book. “He helped me climb the career ladder. I thought I could survive without him. The man inside me told me I didn’t depend on anyone. I was just another white man, like him. Now I know I couldn’t live without Maury.”

Connie: Memoirs is now available.