“This is why I Love You” singer Major. was on the Jennifer Hudson Show earlier this week talking all things marriage.

With or without a love song I was able to pull the love of my life.

The singer revealed to J-Hud how his marriage to wife Nichelle has been 18 years in the making and get this…how their first date was to Olive Garden!

“We actually initially met just before I was heading to college,” he told Jennifer Hudson. “She’s the cousin of one of my best friends from high school. I asked if she’d go on a date with me, and I took her to Olive Garden.

“All the breadsticks and salad we wanted!” he added.

Despite those all-you-can-eat breadsticks, Nichelle wasn’t interested. “After that date, she said, ‘He’s nice, but he’s too old-fashioned.’” That didn’t deter MAJOR., who wasn’t worried. “She’ll be back,” he recalled thinking at the time.

Fifteen years later, the two met again at a wedding. “I saw her, and I said, ‘Hey Nichelle, let’s talk.’

“And we’re here!” he said. The two tied the knot in 2020, 18 years after their first date in 2002. Now, that’s a patient man!

“I’m grateful for every day,” he told J-Hud of being married. “This marriage thing’s an adventure!”