My parents had their house built when they got together. Based on this, I thought that everyone's parents had built the house they lived in when they got married. I thought that when people died, their house was torn down so that a married couple could build their own house there.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - The Whit house down the street was the real "White House". — SG
- I used to believe that if you opened up an umbrella inside your house that the whole house would fly awayAnon
- when i was younger i thought that when you moved house your house moved with you!!— chrissy
- WHEN I WAS FIVE I THOUGHT DEAD PEOPLE
JUST GOT THRONE IN THE BIN AT THERE HOUSE.— JESSELEE GWYNNE (VICTORA)