Journalist Connie Chung and TV personality Maury Povich tied the knot in 1984. After 40 years of marriage, Connie and Maury "don’t get in each other’s hair" because they have maintained their own separate interests and friendships, Connie, 78, shared in a recent interview with Us Weekly. The couple prioritizes spending time together — they always have dinner together, and sometimes lunch as well — but they also make sure that they spend some time apart, too, Connie explained to the publication.
Spending time apart and having their own separate activities and interests is good for their marriage. When they spent too much time together, Maury starts to irritate her, Connie explained in her new memoir, Connie: A Memoir, per Us Weekly.
"I love Maury with all my heart, and I know he loves me deeply, but sometimes, you know, I don’t necessarily like him," Connie wrote in her memoir. She thinks her husband feels the same way.
She told Us Weekly that she would never spend an entire day with Maury. "I know I love him, but when we spend too much time together, that’s when I don’t like him," she explained to the publication.
In practice, this means that Connie and Maury enjoy meals together but also do their own things.
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This is what has made their marriage work, Connie explained to Us Weekly. "If you really break it down, Maury and I have always had our own things that we do," she told the publication. "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 go do what he wants to do, and I’ll do what I want to do."
Connie and Maury have also spoken about how their senses of humor are key to their long-lasting marriage (when promoting his wife's memoir on Instagram, Maury wrote, "My baby mama @conniechungpovich has a new book coming out September 17th!).
In a 2020 interview with People, Connie and Maury bantered with each other. "Connie is never on time," Maury joked during the interview. "Well, what’s so annoying about Maury is that he’s so loud and interrupts all the time," Connie responded.
At the time, Maury shared he and Connie have different outlooks when it comes to conflict, and the strategy that works for him doesn't necessarily work for his wife. "Whatever discussions or arguments go on during the day, once the head hits the pillow, it’s over and not to be continued the next morning. It is not on my mind," he shared at the time.
Connie, however, can't just move on from issues without talking them out a bit more. "That is truly admirable, but I hold grudges and I need to continue to argue it out, whatever it is," she said at the time.
Maury added that he and his wife are still married today because they have "always respected each other’s careers and we’ve always respected each other’s space and values."
In her new memoir, Connie wrote that "were it not for Maury, I could never have had the career I had," reported The Washington Post.
"He has been my foundation, my support beam, my love, my partner in every way, for decades," she wrote in the memoir.
