I used to think that I was required to marry a man from my own family. I remember being very stressed: which one of my brothers would I have to choose? I told my mom this and she laughed so hard, she nearly wet herself
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I thought for some reason that chewing tobacco was REQUIRED for Major League Baseball players.— Jeff
- My brothers to piss me off sometimes told me I was adopted, and that I was the housekeeper's kid.— ricolarno
- i used to believe that if you died you could choose what you could be reincarnated as.— claire
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- I believed that female teachers got to choose if they wanted to be called "mrs. or miss" — Jenna
- I used to think everyone in the world knew and thought in English, but choose to speak different languages. Anon