Does your husband still love you? Put him through these tests that Gen-Z swear by By Susannah Jowitt Published: 02:19 BST, 20 June 2024 | Updated: 02:22 BST, 20 June 2024 e-mail View comments In my schooldays, my girl friends and I spent a high proportion of our time ‘calculating’ if this boy or that boy was going to be ‘The One’ with various arcane customs. Like peeling your satsuma in one go, which allowed you to throw the peel over your shoulder and see what letter shape it fell into. I made the mistake of being mad about a boy called Harry.
Forming an ‘H’ with the peel is unlikely, so that was that. Today, this kind of obsessive hopefulness has found a new home on TikTok . But modern young women are putting their partners to the test in rather more practical ways.
I decided to put my husband of 26 years, who is the father of my two grown-up children, through the new romantic hoops. Read on to see how Anthony got on..
. THE ORANGE TEST Ask your partner to peel an orange for you. If they do it without hesitation then they pass.
If they complain, question it or refuse, the omens are not good. My husband is a big fan of the morning grapefruit and I often sling in a request for a segment, so he’s well-trained. But I make sure to ask when we are both deep in the Sunday papers.
He gets up and does it unquestioningly. Boom, Cupid’s arrow hits. One viral test is to ask your partner to peel an orange for you.
If they do it without hesitation then they pass, but if th.
