When I was about 4, my mom had me convinced you had to have graduated from college to date or get married. You also couldn't kiss until after you were married or else you would get really sick. I sincerely believed it until I was about 12!
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that everyone got married the day they graduated from collegeAnon
- I used to believe that you got married right after you finished high school or college. Anon
- i used to believe nuns were married to jesus and priests were married to mary.— sunshine
- 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