NEW YORK — If there's a question of how to make a marriage last, Maury Povich may have the answer.

Povich is one-half of a TV power couple with his wife, veteran news anchor Connie Chung. The pair, who've been married for 41 years, are still taking life as it comes – if not quite day by day.

"Every time an anniversary comes around, I tell her that we're going to take this marriage one decade at a time," he says.

They met as fellow TV news journalists working at Washington, D.C., station WTTG, nearly 20 years before they wed in 1984. Now in the next act of their careers, Chung, 79, and Povich, 86, balance their busy working schedules (his "On Par" podcast and her new bestselling memoir) with visits to their Montana ranch, where they spend part of the year outside of their home in New York.

The secret sauce is lots of understanding, and more than a sprinkle of love, he says.