I used to believe that a preacher at a wedding ceremony would ask the groom, "Do you take this woman to be your awful wife?", instead of "lawful" wife. I could never understand why anyone would want to marry an "awful" wife.
A childhood belief about marriage

others believed things like this
- I always thought that it was "Afully Wedded Wife" Not "lawfully wedded wife"— Sarah
- I used to think MARIA is the WIFE of JESUS!— Chrono
- When I was three I used to believe that cow and horse are wife and husband.— xenia
- My wife used to believe that CORNED BEEF was from cows who lived beside the seaAnon
- If a man wore his shirt out, I thought his wife was going to have a baby.Anon
- I used to believe that Mother Nature was The wife of God. She was the mommy and he was the daddy. — Dawn