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?

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.

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

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

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?

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.

Does he keep them on when you are doing things that FWB do? If so, just ask him to take them off because they're scratching your ego.

YES. John Major.

Well, we have been shagging for three years, and he would be delighted to be described as an amazing lay. I don't see anything wrong with that.

Agree with @ForZanyAquaViewer …what is the point of your post? You really come across as shallow and lost . Give this guy the best gift and go somewhere else for a good shag ..am sure there are good vibrators to get online without glasses!!!

Bloody hell op posted this as light hearted. most MNetters mustn't be in the mood for light heartedness tonight.
Tbh op it's strange how little things can instantly give us the ick, I got the instant ick recently when a guy asked me if i wanted to go out for some scran rather than for a meal. instant ick, and No I didn't go out for "some scran"

Takes them off. But keeps them on until the last possible moment.

If hes just a FWB and he takes his glasses (and presumably unflattering clothes) off for sex, why are you so bothered about what he looks like? The glasses don't make him any less good in bed.
Also you sound like a Samantha Jones wannabe trying desperately hard to sound cool and casual.

I see.

This. For me, the glasses would make him hotter!

It's true that I'm in my shallow era. Just having fun, and found this great FWB. But the bloody glasses are becoming like a third party in the relationship, possibly because I know there's never going to be any respite from them. Ever.

I actually think it's symbolic of your feelings for the relationship. It's run its' course.

Well, you run out and get your blokes some John Major specs then, and get him to wear them permanently. You can get them with plain glass. Let me know how it goes. And chisel a bifocal line across them for extra allure.

I wear both, glasses more so. I've probably got a 6 month supply of daily ones upstairs. You've just reminded me that I need to adjust my subscription.

I have fallen asleep in contacts after heavy nights of debauchery and the consequences are definitely not an attractive look.

It works! You mentioned her! 🤭

He keeps sending me selfies and we do go out for dinner/bar snacks and drinks. It would be nice to look at him and feel turned-on instead of wondering when he's going to approve the next Budget.

I suppose you look a little bit like Edwina Curry yourself

Nah. But tbh, I've stopped bothering to wear contacts on our dates as well. At least my glasses are nice.

When we kissed goodnight after a double-glasses bar sesh on a school night, we clonked glasses. It was not cute.

Do they still make those glasses with lines across for bifocals. These days and for a very long time you get them with the line blurred. The lenses blend so you can’t notice. Plus they really don’t need to be big to do so. Maybe he needs to try a better optician ( although everyone does them tbh )
I have three way glasses. Reading lens at the bottom , general distance in the middle and far away at the top. No lines.

Yeah, that's what I have, but he likes the line. Doesn't want to try without, because he did years ago and didn't like it. Says he doesn't want to fix what's not broken.

This x1000

That's what I'm wondering, which makes me sad because it's been fun.