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To dump him for wearing glasses?

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 19/02/2025 23:41

Lighthearted AIBU.

I have a lovely sexy FWB. Problem: He permanently obscures his handsome face by wearing these awful glasses. He won't wear contacts - has tried them and hates them. His glasses are really unsexy, but it's hard to get them smaller because they're the bifocal type with a line across. He looks like a bank manager from the early Nineties. When he takes them off, he looks about 20 years younger and 10 times hotter. Drives me mad.

Also it's frustrating that I've got this handsome man who ruins all the general foxiness when we go out with these glasses. He sometimes sends me photos of himself - he's on holiday right now and just sent me a shot - and my vagina is starting to shrivel a bit at the bank manager look. It was OK for the first couple of years because it was all new, and we don't see each other THAT much anyway (although we're firm friends so we text a lot).

I'm beginning to realise that the glasses are going nowhere.

TLDR: His glasses are giving me the ick. Should I dump him for someone who's not perma-wearing a sexual impediment blazoned across his face?

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 01:02

Devianinc · 20/02/2025 00:49

When something as little as that bothers you, you need to let him go bc everything about him will bother you forever. He basically needs his glasses to see. Lol

No, he doesn't. He could get contacts and wear them on our dates, like I do. But he doesn't want to. Just wants to go around with Norman Major glasses glued to his face 18 hours a day for the rest of his life.

He dresses too casually for me, as well. The times when he's turned up wearing dark jeans and a nice shirt that's actually tucked in, and a belt, or dark-navy trousers, he's looked WOOF WOOF. But the silky football tops and flappy long shorts are just not it.

So frustrating when he's so good in bed and could look so sexy with nicer dressing and some contacts. I don't think that smart jeans and a tucked-in shirt are too much to ask for.

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ForZanyAquaViewer · 20/02/2025 01:00

ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:56

We had that discussion about the lenses, as we were getting new glasses at the same time, and he has the lines across because that's what he likes. I told him that he doesn't have to have that anymore, and he said he thought without the lines he would look in the wrong place and feel disoriented, and that he didn't want to try to fix what wasn't broken.

My contacts are called progressives, but same thing - they do both near and far sight.

His glasses are too big and with the line...

I think I'm slowly getting the ick with time. Been shagging for three years. Such a pity because he's an amazing lay.

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Been shagging for three years. Such a pity because he's an amazing lay.

I’m very pro having sex with who you want, when you want. However, the way you’re talking about this man is horrible. Really disrespectful. It would appear you’re trying to make people furiously clutch their pearls? Why?

Lorelaigilmore88 · 20/02/2025 01:00

ImAChangeling · 19/02/2025 23:49

Nerd glasses on a hot man are a fabulous combination!

100% this!
If you don't want him i bet plenty of other ladies would

SpinningLikeAGirlInABrandNewDress · 20/02/2025 00:58

"I have bifocal contacts."
What happens if you put them in upside down 🤔

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:56

DancingHippos · 20/02/2025 00:52

Bifocal glasses don't have lines across the middle anymore. They haven't done for years.
Also there is no such thing as bifocal contact lenses. There are, however, vatifocal contact lenses.

We had that discussion about the lenses, as we were getting new glasses at the same time, and he has the lines across because that's what he likes. I told him that he doesn't have to have that anymore, and he said he thought without the lines he would look in the wrong place and feel disoriented, and that he didn't want to try to fix what wasn't broken.

My contacts are called progressives, but same thing - they do both near and far sight.

His glasses are too big and with the line...

I think I'm slowly getting the ick with time. Been shagging for three years. Such a pity because he's an amazing lay.

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FallOfTheHouseOfUtterlyButterly · 20/02/2025 00:55

The 80s called
It wants its "lighthearted" opinions back

Arlanymor · 20/02/2025 00:53

Norman Major? Don’t you mean John Major and are conflating his name with his wife’s name Norma?

ForZanyAquaViewer · 20/02/2025 00:52

ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:50

It's all very well for others to judge, but I bet if your SO's Norman Major specs were plastered to their faces at all times except sex and sleep, and you were completely stuck with them, I bet you wouldn't like it either!

It didn't bother me the first couple of years, although I never liked them. Funny how things get more icky with time.

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If he were your SO, you’d be getting very different responses (and I hope the tone of your post would be different). He’s not, though. So, meh.

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:52

Offleyhoo · 20/02/2025 00:50

If you're such good friends tell him you don't love his glasses and maybe you could go and look at some together.

Yeah, I might try to arrange that next time he needs some. He just turned up with these, and clearly chose them himself.

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DancingHippos · 20/02/2025 00:52

Bifocal glasses don't have lines across the middle anymore. They haven't done for years.
Also there is no such thing as bifocal contact lenses. There are, however, vatifocal contact lenses.

Purplesphere11 · 20/02/2025 00:51

ThisFluentBiscuit · 19/02/2025 23:41

Lighthearted AIBU.

I have a lovely sexy FWB. Problem: He permanently obscures his handsome face by wearing these awful glasses. He won't wear contacts - has tried them and hates them. His glasses are really unsexy, but it's hard to get them smaller because they're the bifocal type with a line across. He looks like a bank manager from the early Nineties. When he takes them off, he looks about 20 years younger and 10 times hotter. Drives me mad.

Also it's frustrating that I've got this handsome man who ruins all the general foxiness when we go out with these glasses. He sometimes sends me photos of himself - he's on holiday right now and just sent me a shot - and my vagina is starting to shrivel a bit at the bank manager look. It was OK for the first couple of years because it was all new, and we don't see each other THAT much anyway (although we're firm friends so we text a lot).

I'm beginning to realise that the glasses are going nowhere.

TLDR: His glasses are giving me the ick. Should I dump him for someone who's not perma-wearing a sexual impediment blazoned across his face?

I can't lie. I'm currently going through a personal hell. Feeling suicidal intermittently but this almost made me laugh. I'd normally be pissing myself. Thank you for being well just thank you. Poor bloke though

ForZanyAquaViewer · 20/02/2025 00:51

ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:48

He sends me selfies and we do go out to dinner as friends. We're actually going to the ballet soon, as well.

He's SO handsome under those God-awful glasses.

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So, ask him to stop sending you selfies, don’t go out to dinner and just fuck your fuckbuddy.

Or, alternatively, stop fucking your fuckbuddy.

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:50

It's all very well for others to judge, but I bet if your SO's Norman Major specs were plastered to their faces at all times except sex and sleep, and you were completely stuck with them, I bet you wouldn't like it either!

It didn't bother me the first couple of years, although I never liked them. Funny how things get more icky with time.

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Offleyhoo · 20/02/2025 00:50

If you're such good friends tell him you don't love his glasses and maybe you could go and look at some together.

Devianinc · 20/02/2025 00:49

When something as little as that bothers you, you need to let him go bc everything about him will bother you forever. He basically needs his glasses to see. Lol

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:48

ForZanyAquaViewer · 20/02/2025 00:43

I don’t see how. He doesn’t wear them during sex. So, if all you’re doing is having sex, what’s the issue?

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He sends me selfies and we do go out to dinner as friends. We're actually going to the ballet soon, as well.

He's SO handsome under those God-awful glasses.

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:47

Bigcat25 · 20/02/2025 00:45

Think about it op. How is he supposed to get bifocal contacts, and almost no one prefers them to glasses. My eye doc recited overwhelming stats about it.

I have bifocal contacts.

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:46

Left · 20/02/2025 00:07

I feel I need to see an example of 90s bank manager style before I judge.

Think Norman Major.

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Bigcat25 · 20/02/2025 00:45

Think about it op. How is he supposed to get bifocal contacts, and almost no one prefers them to glasses. My eye doc recited overwhelming stats about it.

FallOfTheHouseOfUtterlyButterly · 20/02/2025 00:44

ConstanceM · 19/02/2025 23:47

This is someone's daughter. She must be a hot keeper. The Hot/Not Hot man should lose the glasses or lose this winner of a LADY!

Maybe she'll become a lodger and pretend to work from home in his house though...

ForZanyAquaViewer · 20/02/2025 00:44

TunipTheVegimal24 · 20/02/2025 00:43

Don't have sex with him if you don't want to 🤷‍♀️ I'm sure there are other men who would be your FWB.

Also, this.

ForZanyAquaViewer · 20/02/2025 00:43

ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:40

It's mainly sex-based, and the glasses are ruining even that!

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I don’t see how. He doesn’t wear them during sex. So, if all you’re doing is having sex, what’s the issue?

TunipTheVegimal24 · 20/02/2025 00:43

Don't have sex with him if you don't want to 🤷‍♀️ I'm sure there are other men who would be your FWB.

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:41

TheRossie123 · 20/02/2025 00:40

You sound like a Twat!

Thank you!

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ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 00:40

ToWhitToWhoo · 20/02/2025 00:39

Either you are really shallow, or this relationship is going nowhere for other reasons and you're just using the glasses as an excuse. Either way, best to call it a day before he has too much invested in the relationship, and let him find someone with whom he has more in common.

It's mainly sex-based, and the glasses are ruining even that!

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