When I was about 4, my mum informed me that when women get married they have to change their names. Obviously she didn't explan very well and I went round for weeks telling people "When I get married my name is going to be Sarah so you had better remember it!"
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- when i was young i believed that gay men got married to gay women!— robster
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty
- i used to believe, that if you were married you were a mum and dad— Fay
- when I was little I used to think you had to have a baby before you got married!— Supergirl
- I used to believe that woman had to pay to keep their last name when they got married!!!!!!!— Imaginative_Kidd