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

“If you look at it closely, Maury and I have always had our own things that we do. I believe that you don’t have to be friends with all your friends, and he doesn’t have to be friends with all my friends. He can do what he wants, and I will do what I want,” said Chung, 78, We weekly exclusively in the promotion Connie: A memory“We always get together and have dinner together – sometimes we have lunch together – but we don’t get on each other’s nerves.”

In Chung’s memoir, released Tuesday, Sept. 17, the former news anchor wrote about her long-term romance with 85-year-old Povich, 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 I don’t necessarily like him,” Chung wrote. “I guess the feeling is mutual.”

Further explanation of this line to UsChung stated 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, 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 somehow knew he would be the one, but I didn’t want to and he didn’t want to. We were both single and enjoying our freedom,” she recalled. Us“When I was ready to commit, he wasn’t ready. When he was ready to commit, I wasn’t ready. It went back and forth, and we moved this relationship slowly forward 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 break.’ And I think that was good,” she said. After the six months were up, Chung wrote, she and Povich met in the middle — literally, at a wedding in Texas. It wasn’t until she returned to New York City in 1984 that their future really began.

“Without Maury, I would never have had the career I had. He was my foundation, my pillar of support, my love, my partner in every way for decades,” she wrote in the book. “He helped me navigate my treacherous path to the top. I used to think I could survive without him. The man in me told me I didn’t depend on anyone. I was just another white guy, just like him. Now I know I couldn’t live without Maury.”

Connie: A memory is out now.