Maury Povich revealed the secret to his 41-year marriage to Connie Chung during an appearance on the Today show on April 29
The couple first met in 1969 and tied the knot in 1984, later adopting a son together
Povich said that working in “the same profession” as his journalist wife is key to understanding each other on a deeper level
Maury Povich and Connie Chung just get each other.
During an appearance on the Today show on Tuesday, April 29, Povich, 86, opened up about his 41-year marriage to Chung, 78. When host Al Roker asked about their secret to a long-lasting relationship, the television personality explained that he isn’t sure there is one.
“It’s different,” he admitted. “I say, you know, if we’re arguing, if there’s a big argument going on, when your head hits the pillow at night, it’s over. You start fresh the next day. She says — she holds grudges. So I mean…”
“If you have a spouse in the same profession, there’s a lot more understanding about what’s going on, and I think that really helps,” Povich noted of his journalist wife.
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Maury Povich and Connie Chung
In 2024, Chung reflected on her love story with Povich in an interview with PEOPLE, where she echoed his sentiments about how they handle conflict differently.
“If we’re having a fight at night, he wants to make up before we go to sleep. But when I wake up in the morning, I want to keep fighting. I’m not finished,” she said. “I think that’s the way a lot of women are, anyway. You got to get it out.”
“He has a wider vocabulary, I assure you, than ‘You are the father’ or ‘You are not the father,” she went on to joke, referring to Povich’s famous line from his long-running titular series. “He’s a voracious reader and he is a very solid journalist … he takes his work seriously, but he always told me, don’t take yourself so seriously … I think that’s how we stayed grounded.”
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Connie Chung and Maury Povich
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The couple first met in 1969 when they both worked at a local Washington D.C. news station, WTTG-TV Channel 5, where Povich worked as a co-anchor and Chung as a copygirl.
They tied the knot in 1984, and later adopted a son, Matthew, in 1995, soon after Chung was fired from her “dream job” at ABC News.
“My husband and I had been working on an adoption, because first I forgot to get married, then I forgot to have a baby,” Chung previously explained. “So finally my husband said, ‘I know you want to have a baby.’ We decided to work on an adoption.”
“When CBS had offered me a consolation prize instead of co-anchoring with Dan Rather — I could substitute for him and have my own news on Saturday and Sunday and do documentaries and things — I said, ‘You can take this job and shove it,’” she added. “Because I decided I would have a new life raising my son. And our son was less than a day old when he was in our arms.”
Looking back, both Chung and Povich told PEOPLE in 2020 that they have nothing but gratitude for one another. “I would go back and relive every moment,” Chung gushed.
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