Is it weird that I have an imaginary wife and daughter?

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Man, just ignore the haters and the hurtful, Trumpful (ha, get it, Trump-ful, Donald Trump-ful) comments that you have received about this. I guess that maybe you are lonely. If so, this is, technically speaking, OK behavior. You are just lonely. You should, for your own health, reach out to people for friendships, like us here at WP, . . . . . as long as you are connecting with friends and not scoffers. I, in my life, have done something similar to you. I still long for a relationship with another human except for my horrible family. Now, I am not to the same stage as you are, but I have, and sometimes still do, talk to myself for company. A lot. Full, animated conversations. So don't feel bad. I understand.

The Lonely Clown

This sounds like a really good idea, how do you do it?

I don't think it's weird. I help myself fall asleep by imagining great love stories for myself and my celebrity crush of the week and I've never felt weird about it. I think that's just what happens when people with a lot of imagination get lonely.

I had an imaginary family, once. But I figured it was unhealthy, so I slaughtered them with an imaginary chainsaw.

Maybe you should get real ones so you don't have to pretend anymore.

Getting married at 16 is illegal and a bad idea anyway.

No, it's not weird, nor even unusual, for a 16 year old to fantasize about his adult life.

It is a little strange to me, since I simply do not experience anything like that really. I have had past reoccurring dreams with some of the same 'characters' but that's different. But in the grand scheme of things its really not that weird...I mean I talk to myself and meow at my cats or really any cats. If you're doing this out of loneliness though I would advise maybe trying to reach out some....or at least if someone interacts with you perhaps put the imaginary world on hold rather than that person or they could get the impression you mostly like to be left alone and not bother trying to socialize anymore(I know I've probably wrecked my chances at potential friendships that way) like being too caught up in my own head...and thus seeming stand-off ish and like I didn't want to interact.

Hell, I don't even have a good enough imagination to imagine such a thing.

Sounds pretty cool.

Single people will fantasize being married to specific people they know of the opposite sex. For a 16 year old to fantasize about having a child old enough to talk - that along with an imaginary spouse (and both the spouse and the child are woven out of whole cloth)-strikes me as bit unusual.