My mother told me that the way you a girl got pregnant was to be REALLY CLOSE to a boy. I knew that it was considered bad to be pregnant if you were not married. So I used to try to walk as far away from my brother as possible when we were going anywhere together.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you got married you immideatly got pregnant and so I was terrified to get married— leo
- When I was little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon
- I used to believe that women could only get pregnant once they were married and it just sort of happened Anon
- When I was younger I thought that to elope was to run off and get pregnant before you got married.Anon
- When I was younger I used to believe that women just magically got pregnant after getting married.Anon
- I used to beleive that if you got married getting pregnant was just a random event. I was so scared of boys!— me