Very long term romance predictions

If I recall, when I was a child, people sometimes asked me if I wanted to get married when I grew up. I thought this was a weird question, because it obviously depended on the men who turned out to be available. But I figured, either I wouldn’t get married ever, or I would want to get married numerous times. It seemed unlikely that there was exactly one worthy man. Even if there was for some reason exactly one soul mate for me, presumably he lived in China and we would never meet. 

I think I was was aware this was not the customary kind of answer. But I was sort of righteously committed to perverse views, as a child. 

This is the kind of thing where I’d  expect to learn later why I was so wrong. And I had this filed in my mind under ‘I used to think the darnedest things’, assuming it would turn out to be silly. But actually I think it has been surprisingly prescient. [redacted], though haven’t married anyone. And I just realized that 4/5 of my serious relationships began with me living at least 2000 miles from my prospective partner. Two on different continents. Though I was wrong that if someone good lives on another continent, you won’t be able to find them–it turns out that the internet has some pretty good people-filtering.

I would have been wrong about most people though - most people [redacted], and consider living on different continents to be a deal breaker. So why was I correct about myself? Did my views then affect what I did as an adult? Do the things that make you expect to have lots of partners from really far away, as an incredibly naive child, also make you do that as an adult? (Random aside: is considering people on other continents eligible romantic prospects related to considering people on other continents morally relevant?)

To be clear, it is probably not just that I was a good judge of things across the board as a child. For instance, I also thought I would get HIV if I went to school, and that I could probably fly if I just tried really hard and didn’t give up just because nobody else had done it. In my defense, also that I should maybe build a computer that understands everything, to optimize the universe with. But also that I should give up on that if my uncle said that it was impossible.