It took Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife weeks to warm up to her future husband during his “persistent” courtship in the early 1990s, and first lady Chirlane McCray believes it’s only a matter of time before America warms up to him, too.

McCray, during a taped appearance with de Blasio on ABC’s “The View” that aired Friday, said she’s not shocked at Hizzoner’s low approval rating as he continues his long-shot bid to become president, but she believes things will improve.

“I don’t think that people are getting anything wrong with him,” said McCray. “I just think they haven’t gotten a chance to get to know him. He just jumped into this [presidential] race weeks ago and, you know, it took a little while [for him] to win me over.”

When asked if it was “love at first sight,” McCray — who identified as a lesbian before hooking up with her future husband — conceded that the physical sparks on her end were “not instantaneous.” De Blasio agreed with his wife, laughingly blurting out, “Noooo!”

De Blasio, 58, and McCray, 64, met in 1991 while both were working for the Dinkins administration, and were married nearly three years later. They’ve remained married for 25 years and have a son, Dante, and a daughter, Chiara.

“I just want to say it was love at first sight for me,” a smiling de Blasio said. “I heard angels singing, violins playing, all that. And I will always say Chirlane felt absolutely nothing.”

“It felt like weeks and weeks and weeks of just trying to get her to pay attention at all.”

McCray recalled how de Blasio finally won her heart by repeatedly “hanging out” by her during work and “making jokes to get [her] attention.”

“Persistence!” de Blasio said. “Twenty-seven years later. Here we are.”

During the appearance, there was no mention that de Blasio made Delta passengers wait in their seats on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport for 10 minutes Thursday after flying back from his less-than-stellar performance in the Detroit debate — so that he and his security detail could deplane first and rush off to tape the appearance on “The View.”