marriage

A much older friend of mine once told me that you can only have a baby if you're married. I was only small at the time so of course i believed her! boy was i ever surprised when i first heard of single parents.

internet freak

My aunt used to tell me that if you kissed a mirror you had to marry it when you grew up,just to stop me from kissing her mirror.(yeah,that was one of my weird habits as a child)
I also used to think I'd marry my dad when I grew up.

H

I could never understand why movie couples would be sitting at dinner and the wife would suddenly say "Honey I have a surprise for you. We're going to have a baby". After I had learned about the birds and bees, I thought surely wouldn't you REMEMBER doing something like that?"

I used to think that when you got married something would automatically happen to your body to make you have children. So I did not understand, when I saw a movie about a marooned couple with a baby on a desert island, how they could have children since they hadn't been to a church to get married.

Anon

I thought the only reason you get married the only reason is because you were so sick of getting asked to go out from a far distance , and that you were sick of that person . I didn't understand until now . But I believe that because my mom and dad always agrue and after there done they say "ohh , I'm sick of him/her.

azhip

when i was young, my mom told me that a married chinese woman would put her husband's last name at the front of her original name. but she didnt tell me that ppl would do this only when calling married ladies in formal events. when i checked my mom's ID card, there was only her name. so i thought she didnt really marry to my dad officially.

oiman

When i was younger(about 5) my brother told me you had to marry someone with the same middle name. My middle name is lee and the only other person i knew with the same middle name was an annoying little boy in my school. I began to cry and ran upstairs my mom followed, and i explained what happened and she still doesnt let me forget it.

Laura

when i was age 3-6 my mom babysat all my friends for a living. we debated between 2 theories for marriage, one was that you had to marry the person if you kissed them, the other was that you had to marry someone if you went on a date with them. I flatly refused to believe the first and whenever one of my friends told me that, i remember correcting them that that was wrong but that the other was right. I was very stubborn on this subject. I don't remember why this was but i think it had something to to with my neighbors who were older than me and i think eigther they believed this or they were playing a joke on me.

Summer

When I was little I thought that when you got married they would hand you a baby and you couldn't kiss the bride untill she named it.

Anon

When I was young I used to believe that I have to marry my sister. Like all parents have one boy and a girl and they have to be wife and husband!

Viktor

I used to believe that boys married boys and girls married girls, and I argued that one with my mom for quite awhile...yeah...that really explained why my mom is a woman and my dad is a man...

Stupid girl

When I was little I used to beleive that when a guy got married his name was automatically changed from the full version to the short version (such as Phillip becomes Phil) and he would have to use that version. I got this because my dad, uncle and most of the other guys in my family all used the short version of their name and I was horrified about that because I hated (and still do) the short version of my name (Matt).

Anon