When I was little and asked my mom what adultery was, she said it meant that a grownup ran away from home. So, for the longest time, I thought that parents who ran away together, abandoning their kids, were committing adultery.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I thought adultery was when you acted too much like an adult as a kid and wondered whats so bad about that?— Butch McFear
- I thought for the longest time that a No Standing traffic sign meant no person should stand near that sign.— Shannon
- I used to believe that there was an actual point where I became a grownup.Anon
- For the longest time I thought 90210 was a sitcom Anon
- i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill
- I thought that Samson and Solomon from the Bible were the same person for the longest time...— Laura G.