When I was about eight years old, a friend of mine believed that once a princess became married, she would immediately become queen. Because of this (and the notion that queens are washed-up old fogies who never do anything cool), she would never get 'married' while playing pretend.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I used to think when you married you had babies immediately!Anon
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- when i was young i believed that gay men got married to gay women!— robster
- When I was younger, I believed that Priests could get married, but only to Nuns— MJF
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty