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?

Why are you dressing up and going on 'dates' with a FWB? Seems weird to me, especially to call it a date.

Otherwise I'd say anything can give you the ick. And if its the glasses, then so be it. Maybe its run its course. Let him move on and you do the same.

Glasses are sexy. Yabu. I love mine.

Yes dump him. There are plenty more fish in the sea - for him - and you will be doing him a massive favour. Who needs a "friend" (with or without benefits) like you?

Perhaps his taste in glasses reflects his taste in wonen?

Don’t be so shallow.

i think OP is about as shallow as it’s possible to get.

It's a real shame Glasses can't help you see the ugly inside of people ! Do the man a favour and break up with him

Are people really that shallow?
A vagina shrivelling at a pair of glasses isn't normal or actually possible.

You sound vile OP.

I am 😂

Why on earth is he wearing bifocals with a line across them? So old fashioned, nobody wears them now, we all wear varifocals.
Mine are a complicated prescription but still minimalist and attractive.
Tell him to stop being such a dick and go and get some decent glasses. I wouldn't be seen dead in old fashioned bifocals.

I feel like the OP's intentions are lighthearted as she says but it doesn't really read like that. I couldn't discard someone over something so minor but seeing as he's just your fuck buddy, crack on. If he turns you off that much I don't get why you're sleeping with him.

Ending an FWB is no big deal, for any or no reason at all. You could also just tell him you don't like his glasses if you want, also no big deal, in my opinion. However, I was rather icked out at the TMI bit about the vagina shriveling.

So him a favour and show him the true you.
There are plenty of lovely people out there, he doesn't just have to make do.

At last! Someone who gets it!

He was worried that he wouldn't like varifocals, I think he might have tried them years ago when they first came out, and they weren't as good. And he said when he got this current pair "Why fix something that's not broken?"

Nothing light-hearted about your post.
If a man wrote this about a woman, you'd be screaming misogyny.
Let's hope he finds someone who doesn't think he looks like a bank manager (lazy trope, btw)

He knows. I've done far worse than be icked out by someone's glasses.

But if I dump him, I won't say it's because of his glasses and polyester. I'll just say it's time we moved on.

That's the most shallow thing I think I have ever read. Let him know. Why should he waste time with you - even as FWB?

I'm beginning to feel not as much like sleeping with him as I used to, tbh, even given his great bedroom skills. Maybe I'm just used to him after three years. Maybe I just want a change from bank-manager bifocals and polyester. I wish he'd smarten himself up a bit. Would definitely help with keeping the spark going.

Search me. I've told him all my flaws.

Absolutely this

Specsavers can't do decent varifocals. You have to go to a decent prescriber. I pay quite a lot for mine but they are so worth it. They look great and completely change your face.
I'd just be completely blunt with him about it.

Maybe he doesn't want to make the effort to dress to your standards because he doesn't care enough about what you think, given how shallow you are

You’re both going to end up very ugly and wrinkly so if you can’t get past some glasses you’re going to find life very difficult. Let him go so someone can love him and respect him as he deserves.

Quite revolting.

Attempt at humour: 0/10

They're really not. Both he and I look miles better without them. Some glasses might be nice ones, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone who looks better with them than without. Otherwise it would be very common for people who don't need them to wear them with plain glass, and virtually no one does that.