To dump him for wearing glasses?

[ThisFluentBiscuit]

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 would happily send you on a date with him, so we could have a girlie de-brief afterwards!

If he got you into bed, you would want to be my friend for life!

So just stop having sex with him. He’s not your partner - it doesn’t need this much thought.

There must be plenty of fellas out there, who are looking for a port in a storm.

Not the same. I didn't see that thread. But now I want to.

Well yes, it's the smutty schoolboy language that reeks of Old Lady Trying Too Hard To Be Cool

Yup.
I'm getting Harry Enfield's Saucy Old Ladies and the gasman vibes: "Ooh, young man!"

I get it. I die inside when my dh wears polyester. It's really unattractive. Maybe 3 yrs is too long for a fwb? He's gotten too comfy with you. No idea why a person wouldn't want to look their best and get nice 'homey' clothes. But I'm in a minority it seems

Maybe stop reading?

😂😂😂

Maybe, but I don't like the ones I've met. I'm quite looks-oriented. I met two potentials but they ruined it by coming on too strong. About as much self-control as puppies in a butcher's shop.

I agree. He used to wear better clothes. Probably not bothered or too comfy with me.

She does, though. She said she'd be really upset if he didn't want to see her again. That's the opposite of not caring. It's also counterproductive to FWB.

Actually...I've just had an idea. I have a younger friend who's really attractive; she looks just like a young Marion Cotillard. And she's very into the same religion as FWB. Wonder if I could set them up...might be a way of putting some distance between us but still keeping him in my life except more on the edges. Like him, she also doesn't want commitment after getting recently divorced.

I don't think FWB means you don't care. It just means you don't see a serious, committed future together.

I'd love to see what you look like op.

You sound absolutely gross inside and out. You are giving me the ick.

It's fine not to fancy someone for whatever reason. But there's something really off about starting a thread as though it's hilarious, about this man's glasses which he needs in order to be able to SEE.

The way you talk, it's horrible. Honestly, you should take a long hard look at yourself. I do believe that shallow people are destined for long lonely lives.

If you don't like him just dump him. What's the point in trying to change someone when there's no future in it anyway, and you're put off by not only his poor eyesight but his dress sense.

And wtf are you calling John Major, Norman Major.

Weird.

I actually wouldn't mind a younger man! I do feel quite "Oooh young man!"

We clearly have different definitions. I don't date mine, either.

Still think you're being unfair with this character assassination online.

This

That's the word on the street about shallow people, but I don't think it's true. I'm not lonely.

I don't think I'm gross inside and out. That's harsh!

Character assasination? Well, they do say that clothes maketh the man...

It is, and he's a teacher.

I've told this story on here before. Went on a first date with a guy I'd met when very drunk in a bar and exchanged numbers with. He turned up late and also went up to another girl who looked nothing like me before seeing me and coming over. To be fair I probably wouldn't have recognised him either as he was wearing Austin Powers style glasses that he definitely hadn't been wearing the night we met so I was a bit 🤔. He got us a drink and came and sat back down and as he did his glasses suddenly swung apart in the middle and the two half's dangled off each ear! I was in shock and obviously burst out laughing - turns out he was late as he'd broken them before our date, had no contact lenses left and had to fix them with superglue (which obviously didn't work very well).

We've been together over 20 years now 😂

If you don't fancy him bc he has some dodgy glasses OP he isn't the one for you!

harsh-i use to get bullied about wearing glases stop saying he doesnt need them-some of us cant wear ccontacts i tried an i have omplex lenses

noone needs friends like you

I can only assume that this is a joke and op thinks he/she is hilarious.

But it's not really coming across as funny more nasty.

Why would you want to see my looks? People can't help what they look like.

You know what they CAN help? Mike Read glasses and Gazza-wear!

Who are all these very religious people you know, who are happy to have plenty of no strings sex, op?