As a child, I was surrounded by fairytales about princesses who grew up and got married, and at some point I decided that ONLY princesses got married. So I thought my mother had been a princess when she was younger, but had become a teacher after she married Dad because she liked it more.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine
- When I was younger I thought that to elope was to run off and get pregnant before you got married.Anon
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon
- I used to think princesses are only in TV shows— i'm weird
- I used to believe that God and Mother Nature were married.Anon
- When I was younger, I believed that Priests could get married, but only to Nuns— MJF