when i was about five it was my grandparents' wedding anniversary. My mum told me that it meant that they'd been married for forty years. I thought she meant that they got married again every year.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- That the white stuff coming out of aeroplanes meant that someone on the plane had just got married.Anon
- I used to believe that having children could only happen after a wedding with the person you are married to.Anon
- When I was nine, I thought two eleven-year-olds could get married.Anon
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine
- I was once told that white roaches where that color because they just got married.— Andrew
- I thought all teachers in school were married to each otherAnon