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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 22:25

ChompandaGrazia · 20/02/2025 21:04

But wearing jobby catcher grey tracksuit bottoms or having a shit haircut is a choice. Having poor eyesight is not a choice.

But who are you to define a haircut as shit? Maybe the wearer loves it!

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LastRoIo · 20/02/2025 22:25

And haircut isn't always a choice. Plenty of men have to shave their heads when they start going bald. I know a fair few men who really didn't want to but had no choice.

LastRoIo · 20/02/2025 22:28

BunnyLake · 20/02/2025 21:09

I didn't have to learn to tolerate them though, I got used to them straightaway. So I wonder would someone be so quick to not use them if they were trouble free from the start? Once intolerance comes in it doesn’t seem to go away, in my own experience at least.

I found them a pain at first. Struggled to get them in which irritated my eyes, and kept feeling like there was 'something in my eye'. But then I just got used to them.

DollydaydreamTheThird · 21/02/2025 08:42

ThisFluentBiscuit · 20/02/2025 22:25

But who are you to define a haircut as shit? Maybe the wearer loves it!

You're not doing yourself any favours here OP.😂 Who are you to decide your FWB glasses are shit? Other people might think he looks hot in them and he might think that too.

Sumthingsweet · 21/02/2025 10:30

sounds as though op has some mental health issues

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