“She’s Not That Special”: Woman Puts Boyfriend On Blast After Failing “Orange Peel Theory”
The “orange peel theory” is sparking debates on social media, with multiple women going viral on TikTok after testing it out directly on their boyfriends.
The theory involves someone asking their partner to perform the small task of peeling an orange as one way to test their appreciation and love.
If the targetted person responds with “no” or “do it yourself,” according to the theory, one should break up with them, as they don’t truly love the person.
The most viral version of this trend saw a girl called Shelby asking her boyfriend to peel her orange, only to be told “she’s not that special” and that he’s trying to “build her up as a female” by telling her to peel it herself.
The “orange peel theory” is sparking debates on social media, with multiple women going viral on TikTok after testing it out directly on their boyfriends
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The theory involves someone asking their partner to perform the small task of peeling an orange as one way to test their appreciation and love
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In the now-viral TikTok video, which has amassed 24.2 million views, Shelby could be seen telling her boyfriend: “I hate peeling it,” as a lure to get him to peel it for her.
After asking, “You’re not gonna peel it for me?“, the boyfriend was heard responding: “As if I don’t do enough,” before concluding: “Dude, I ask you to do things all the time.”
Safe to say that Shelby’s boyfriend did not pass the orange peel theory.
If the targetted person responds with “no” or “do it yourself,” according to the theory, one should break up with them, as they don’t truly love the person
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While some viral TikToks showcased various responses, with some igniting arguments, other videos have also featured some hilarious reactions, such as Amy Carreon, who amassed 788,400 views for making fun of the whole trap.
Reacting to the viral trend, sex and relationships psychologist Charisse Cooke told Vice: “They can be useful if we tend to minimize issues in our partnerships and be in denial about some of the problematic aspects of our relationships.
The most viral version of this trend saw a girl called Shelby asking her boyfriend to peel her orange, only to be told “she’s not that special”
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“By doing a test, it can draw attention to attitudes or behaviors in a relationship that are not healthy or loving.”
She further revealed: “The best way to create a caring partnership is to ask your partner for what you need.
“I think we want our partners to read our minds or ‘just know’ what we want.
“But we’re always learning in relationships, and we can teach our partners how we like to be loved and what is most meaningful to us.
“This is the best way to develop an open-hearted, reciprocal relationship. Start making requests and asking for things in your relationship rather than testing them.”
“If you have to ‘test’ your relationship, you probably shouldn’t be in one,” a reader commented
I am probably going to get insanely downvoted for this, but this is my last straw. I am SICK AND TIRED of all these completely made up social media relationship rules and tests. They are based on absolutely nothing, and they probably destroy more relationships than you can know. There's a massive difference between your partner not being willing to help you through anything, and them questioning why you, if you are a fully-functional and able-bodied adult human, cannot perform and extremely simple task by yourself. If your partner was busy with another task, irritated, sleepy, etc., then yeah, maybe they will wonder why you can't peel your own fruit yourself. That is ZERO reason to break up with them. An actual indicator of a red-flag would be if you were upset by something, and they refused to help you through it; then, yeah, it's time to break up. Just love your partners, guys. Put down TikTok, please.
Can we PLEASE stop these utterly cráppy tikfuck transcripts? Can we PLEASE stop this garbage tikfuck ALTOGETHER?
But...but... BP can't steal ALL of their content from Reddit. Some of it has to be copy/pasta from other sources. Thankfully we now also have lots of shopping threads of things we can purchase on Amazon. /J / S
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More cutting edge reporting on BP, thanks to the resident "journalist". "Peel me a grape" used to be a tease. Now clueless sheep on TikTok use it as a test? Bring it on, another red flag. "Test" me like that and you're gone.
Of you have to "test" your relationship, you shouldn't be in one. Why the heck would I ask my husband to peel an orange? He's got crazy short nails (he chews them, anxiety habit) and I don't. That being said, I also own this nifty little tool I got from Pampered Chef decades ago that zips the peel off like nothing. 30 seconds to peel any citrus. (I got roped into going to a stupid MLM party and bought the cheapest thing they had. It was under $1 back then.) Edited for a plethora of typos.
Omg tell me what the 30 seconds peel thing isi do not know!
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Ah yes, let me test the strength of my relationship based on some idiotic TikTok trends. Can you just stop posting this TikTok c**p, BoredPanda?
Try "testing" me as if I were some sort of lab rat, and I guarantee you I will drop you like a bad habit.
If y'all think that you have to test your partner, then y'all have trust issued.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Post terrible boring content with giant filter-faces, get downvotes. Please BP - stop with the tiktoks.
If you are wondering if your partner loves you, ask. Don't do some tiktok challenge because that's dumbing down and insulting. Let's not forget tiktok was the platform that started s**t like tide / pod challenges that literally killed people. If this is where you are looking for relationship advice, your relationship is already in trouble.
The equivalent of the guy asking the wife/girfriend "go make me a sandwich" ??
This is so stupid. I am lol at the bf who peeled all the oranges, now she either needs to eat them all or they will form a dry outer skin.
This 100% works. If you are willing to leave someone because of one incident, you don't really love them and they are better off without you and your self centered attitude. Sure, if someone never does anything for you it's a red flag, but tests like this are garbage, you are not considering what they are going through at the time.
We all need to downvote these articles. How do they always have upvotes?
Anyone playing that kind of immature mind game would have the riot act read to them. If you don't know whether your SO is a callous pos by their general treatment of you, then you're never going to know. You start playing games with a good man, he might find it disrespectful and childish and may not want to deal with your drama anymore. Play these games at your own rish.
I'm sure glad I got married long before I got my first computer, I can't imagine what dog-c**p advice I would have been subjected to. As it was, we opted for talking and using our words, and being honest with each other. This is Junior High School level c**p. "Oh, I like him but I don't 'like him like him'. Stop it.
This sound like a great test to see if you should dump your girlfriend. How do we warn all the guys?
In theory, I don't mind these tiktok things, but there is apparently quite reasonable content there, so it would be nice to get such content here. Personally, I just can't stand the flood of short videos, so that's why I like to spend time on a platform that collects everything different together.
Aside from the fact this test is ducking stupid, do they not realise this has been all over Thik Tok? If you try this now, your partner has most likely heard of it and will either flat out refuse or just come back with equally stupid test for their partner. What utter bollox.
y'all going off on this..BUT do you follow this chic??? LOOK at her posts..she actually puts her BF in these situations. If I was him..I'd get tired too of this BS and kick that b***h to the curb. Just to make him look like the bad guy for " followers" and u dumb asses do. SMMFH!!! AND THE NEWS PICKED THIS C**P UP!!!!! Dumb MF'S!!!!!!!
I worked with this INCREDIBLY young 18 year old who made a fake Tinder profile trap to 'catch her boyfriend cheating', then acted devastated when he started talking to the fake profile. You go looking for problems in your relationship you're gonna find them. You go MAKING problems in your relationship... self sabotage, much?
I've just upvoted all of the comments below mine. This is f*****g ridiculous. I simply have no more words!
I have a better idea for a test. Short people should ask taller people to help them get stuff down off a high shelf. Also, people who are great cooks could spontaneously make dinner for their partner. Another test is that after your partner helps around the house you say thank you.
I am probably going to get insanely downvoted for this, but this is my last straw. I am SICK AND TIRED of all these completely made up social media relationship rules and tests. They are based on absolutely nothing, and they probably destroy more relationships than you can know. There's a massive difference between your partner not being willing to help you through anything, and them questioning why you, if you are a fully-functional and able-bodied adult human, cannot perform and extremely simple task by yourself. If your partner was busy with another task, irritated, sleepy, etc., then yeah, maybe they will wonder why you can't peel your own fruit yourself. That is ZERO reason to break up with them. An actual indicator of a red-flag would be if you were upset by something, and they refused to help you through it; then, yeah, it's time to break up. Just love your partners, guys. Put down TikTok, please.
Can we PLEASE stop these utterly cráppy tikfuck transcripts? Can we PLEASE stop this garbage tikfuck ALTOGETHER?
But...but... BP can't steal ALL of their content from Reddit. Some of it has to be copy/pasta from other sources. Thankfully we now also have lots of shopping threads of things we can purchase on Amazon. /J / S
Load More Replies... More cutting edge reporting on BP, thanks to the resident "journalist". "Peel me a grape" used to be a tease. Now clueless sheep on TikTok use it as a test? Bring it on, another red flag. "Test" me like that and you're gone.
Of you have to "test" your relationship, you shouldn't be in one. Why the heck would I ask my husband to peel an orange? He's got crazy short nails (he chews them, anxiety habit) and I don't. That being said, I also own this nifty little tool I got from Pampered Chef decades ago that zips the peel off like nothing. 30 seconds to peel any citrus. (I got roped into going to a stupid MLM party and bought the cheapest thing they had. It was under $1 back then.) Edited for a plethora of typos.
Omg tell me what the 30 seconds peel thing isi do not know!
Load More Replies... Ah yes, let me test the strength of my relationship based on some idiotic TikTok trends. Can you just stop posting this TikTok c**p, BoredPanda?
Try "testing" me as if I were some sort of lab rat, and I guarantee you I will drop you like a bad habit.
If y'all think that you have to test your partner, then y'all have trust issued.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Post terrible boring content with giant filter-faces, get downvotes. Please BP - stop with the tiktoks.
If you are wondering if your partner loves you, ask. Don't do some tiktok challenge because that's dumbing down and insulting. Let's not forget tiktok was the platform that started s**t like tide / pod challenges that literally killed people. If this is where you are looking for relationship advice, your relationship is already in trouble.
The equivalent of the guy asking the wife/girfriend "go make me a sandwich" ??
This is so stupid. I am lol at the bf who peeled all the oranges, now she either needs to eat them all or they will form a dry outer skin.
This 100% works. If you are willing to leave someone because of one incident, you don't really love them and they are better off without you and your self centered attitude. Sure, if someone never does anything for you it's a red flag, but tests like this are garbage, you are not considering what they are going through at the time.
We all need to downvote these articles. How do they always have upvotes?
Anyone playing that kind of immature mind game would have the riot act read to them. If you don't know whether your SO is a callous pos by their general treatment of you, then you're never going to know. You start playing games with a good man, he might find it disrespectful and childish and may not want to deal with your drama anymore. Play these games at your own rish.
I'm sure glad I got married long before I got my first computer, I can't imagine what dog-c**p advice I would have been subjected to. As it was, we opted for talking and using our words, and being honest with each other. This is Junior High School level c**p. "Oh, I like him but I don't 'like him like him'. Stop it.
This sound like a great test to see if you should dump your girlfriend. How do we warn all the guys?
In theory, I don't mind these tiktok things, but there is apparently quite reasonable content there, so it would be nice to get such content here. Personally, I just can't stand the flood of short videos, so that's why I like to spend time on a platform that collects everything different together.
Aside from the fact this test is ducking stupid, do they not realise this has been all over Thik Tok? If you try this now, your partner has most likely heard of it and will either flat out refuse or just come back with equally stupid test for their partner. What utter bollox.
y'all going off on this..BUT do you follow this chic??? LOOK at her posts..she actually puts her BF in these situations. If I was him..I'd get tired too of this BS and kick that b***h to the curb. Just to make him look like the bad guy for " followers" and u dumb asses do. SMMFH!!! AND THE NEWS PICKED THIS C**P UP!!!!! Dumb MF'S!!!!!!!
I worked with this INCREDIBLY young 18 year old who made a fake Tinder profile trap to 'catch her boyfriend cheating', then acted devastated when he started talking to the fake profile. You go looking for problems in your relationship you're gonna find them. You go MAKING problems in your relationship... self sabotage, much?
I've just upvoted all of the comments below mine. This is f*****g ridiculous. I simply have no more words!
I have a better idea for a test. Short people should ask taller people to help them get stuff down off a high shelf. Also, people who are great cooks could spontaneously make dinner for their partner. Another test is that after your partner helps around the house you say thank you.
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