I used to believe that a husband had to be 6 months to 1 year older than his wife. If it were less than 6 months, or more than one year, they couldn't get married. I was very confused one day when one of my friends told me that her dad was 9 years older than her mom.
A childhood belief about marriage
others believed things like this
- My sister used to think that because I was 15 months older than her, I would die 15 months before her!— Nicola Braden
- I thought that Dad's were always older then Mom's, come to find out my mom is a few months older than my dad.— Nicole
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- My wife thought she was Elvis mother when she was 4. It was 1977 the same year he died. — sister vanilla
- When I was nine, I thought two eleven-year-olds could get married.Anon