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?

Yeah let him go so he can find someone less shallow.

It's mostly about the sex, and the glasses are giving me the real ick. I do care about him as a person, but I care about my sister as a person too, and I certainly don't want to sleep with her!

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.

Exactly! I can't suggest contacts or go glasses shopping with him! We don't really have much in common in terms of our interests, it's all about the hawwwwwwwt sex, and the sodding glasses are ruining even that! He does take them off in bed, thank duck.

You sound like a Twat!

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

Thank you!

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

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?

Also, this.

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

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.

Think Norman Major.

I have bifocal contacts.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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