Woman Tests Her Boyfriend With TikTok’s ‘Orange Peel’ Test, Realizes How Trashy He Is

the test is still dumb! if my bf doesn't want to peel my orange for whatever reason it doesn't say ANYTHING about how he reacts if i ask him for something bigger? i would have reacted the same way as her bf :D why would i tie up her hair?? that's just stupid LOL... to compare the orange peeling/tieing up her hair to something bigger is just so random. but she still did some reflection and learnt he was an a*s so that's a win i guess... but the test is stupid!

As a person who was unexpectedly disabled and then unexpectedly needed to fight a hyperaggressive breast cancer, all with in a decade...I support the orange peel theory. My partner never expected to be a caretaker for a traumatically injured wife, a premature baby, or a breast cancer patient. I went from a badass athlete who could rise to any occasion to a person who couldn't walk. Orange Peel Theory would have been passed with flying colors by the both of us from the 1sr date. He got a brave survivor who won't give up unless there is no other way. I got a partner who will see my weaknesses as an opportunity to help.

What a stupid test. If I'd ask my fiance to tie my shoes, he'd sure tell me that I should do this on my own, and I'd do the same if he asked me something so stupid. If OPs bloke seriously doesn't do nothing, that sure is a problem (and lack of proper communication), but it shouldn't be determined by a TikTok test.

If it is just one small thing than no don't do it, but yeah if it's a pattern then they don't care about you and are just using you. I honestly hate peeling oranges so I would not really be up for that but putting your hair up that's my jam.

With my husband we have what I refer to lazy asks. I might be warm in bed and want the window closed so ask him to come in and close the window. Or he would like some toast made while he is playing a game. Or I would like a drink. It really is the small things that show love and it needs to be even in a relationship for it to last.

I just tested this with my parents for laughs; asked my mom if she could hand me my purse, and before she could even ask what or why, my dad (who was playing solitaire on his computer) jumped up to go get it! Played out exactly as I expected, lol. Next target… my cat. :p

I don't know about tests, but there is a grain of truth in it. More than once I've had friends or acquaintances say "he does that for you??". And I know their husbands are taking them for granted

Marriage and family therapist checking in here. This is a really bad test. Of course we should not ask others to do things for us as a test, and we should not ask them to do things that we are capable of doing for ourselves. But this did lead to the woman realizing that she takes more care of his child than he does, and likely other traditional household chores, too. Like, does he think he is helping her when he does housework? Does she want that traditional role? It appears not. I doubt she based her entire decision on that test. And if someone else does, then they might not be ready for adulting anyway.

It sounds like he has full custody of his baby. I wonder what the backstory is there? Where’s the bio mom?

Well I think she dodged a bullet since the BF turned out to be such a lazy d**k about everything and expected her to drive him to his friends and take care of his kid while he f'd off.

You all saying the test is stupid simply based off the "tasks" asked, are being rather small minded. It could be any other small task that you can "do yourself". The point is, as long as it isn't enabling a more serious issue of a person not being independent AT ALL, the partner should want to easily help their partner out with this "small task". Vice versa.

Surely it depends on the task/test you set, if I asked my husband to tie my hair up he would look at me cross eyed as to why I was asking, I could do it in seconds whereas it would take him longer. Not doing something one time doesn’t mean anything, my husband often goes down to the garage to work on his motorbikes sometimes he will text and ask for a cup of tea or whatever to be brought down (in a nice way so there’s no issue) so he doesn’t dirty up the house by getting it himself if it’s raining, cold etc and I don’t want to leave the house I’ll say no for those reasons doesn’t make me a bad person or a rubbish wife instead I bought him a flask so he can make his own and take it with him for when he wants it

Some people do like me and my husband. Honey if you love me you'll get me some water. If I love you ill make you get up and get exercise and do it yourself. Damn she has a point. Now mind you sometimes we will especially if we're already getting for ourselves and if someone legit needs help we do whatever we can. But we also realize sometimes you gotta do tough love. Now in the instance of this story, nah drop his @$$

in a healthy relationship you will do some little things for your partner just because they asked, because you love your partner and want them to be happy. If I still had long hair, I would love for someone to help me braid it or put it up. It's easier for another person to stand behind me and do it, right?? So I thought the hair was a reasonable request, and that he refused, it showed he wasn't interested in helping her the same way she helped him. The towel just confirmed it. So this caused her to stop and think and make a list of all the stuff she did for him vs all the stuff he did for her. And that showed a huge imbalance, where he kept taking and taking but didn't give much back. And his lying to her that he needed a ride to her place so they could talk, but really wanted her to drop him at the bar and take over watching the baby, without even asking her if she was willing, was the last straw for her. So, even if the test seems silly to you, it worked for her.

This is a stupid test. My own mother would tell me to peel my orange, it says nothing about how much a person respects or loves you. You could just catch them when they are busy or in a bad mood and they might say it. How about important things like asking them to make dinner for you or taking your dogs for a walk, things that are planned in advance. My measure is when someone constantly lets you down, cancels plans last minute, stands you up, doesn't bother etc. It's the accumulation of lack of effort that should make you dump someone not refusing to peel a damn orange!

The test is garbage, but it did lead to her getting away from him, so it worked out, I suppose.

Despite her claims, I can't believe either of these people are adults. She may not be 12, but 16 or 17 seems right. Completely immature. Can we go ahead and ban tiktok posts here? This one didn't have the giant face and dangerous link, but it's truly the lowest quality content (other than the buy-this ads).

Dumbest test ever. I am not going to peel orange for a grown-up perfectly capable of doing it him/herself who has time do it. Maybe if I am in process of peeling an orange myself I can understand being asked and probably will do it. It has no bearing at all how I will go about when asked to do a bigger task.

if my wife asked me to peal an orange, Id ask her if I can do it after I take out the trash, scoop the boxes, vacuum the bedroom, sweep the rest of the house and do the laundry... such a dumbfucking test.

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Without additional context, as in, how much do you do for yourself, and how often do you ask him to do stuff for you?... you are the a*****e for simply basing this off a stupid tik tok trend, and what are the chances he knew what you were doing and did not do anything to p**s you off.... lastly, just because he works from home doesn't automatically make him not tired after work, i work from home sometimes and when its busy, yeah i need a break at the end of the day.... the audacity people have, to think just because you are in a relationship that it's assumed of you to do something you don't want to do. at the end of the day you are still 1 human being, you live together, you don't own each other.