AITAH for crying in public?

NTA

My fiancee has a very strong bias against people with glasses. He always says he is absolutely not attracted to people wearing glasses and that it's just not possible for him to change anything about it. I have strong migraines and eye pain related to that. I wear my glasses because of that, not because my eyesight is bad. If I don't wear them, my eyes start to hurt pretty fast.

A few days before, when he came back from work and I went to kiss him, he removed my glasses first and then kissed me. Also, recently some photographer took professional photos of me which I considered to be one of my most beautiful pictures. I was really happy with it and showed the photo to my fiancee and there was not much of a reaction from him. I asked him why and he just said that it's the glasses. This all happened very recently and there were all these small things that he does when I'm wearing glasses, like averting his eyes when I'm close to him and never complementing me with glasses. It all just became too much recently.

So, we're sitting in a restaurant and while we're waiting for food, I remove my glasses for a few seconds and he immediately compliments me that I look really good. Since all these things from before added up, I started crying. At first, he tried holding my hand but I obviously don't like to cry in public and would not have liked for this to become a public scene, so I stood up and went to the toilet to calm down. When I come back, he doesn't say a word to me and is really angry the whole time we're there. I was really shocked about his reaction and was even sadder about this whole situation.

After we left the restaurant, this became a huge fight and he was really angry with me because according to him, I just left suddenly without saying anything (even though he saw that I was just trying to hold my tears) and did not talk to him when I came back. I was really struggling through the whole dinner to even eat without crying and could not have said anything that would not result in even more fighting. When we left, I said that he's been making me feel really insecure lately and that I don't feel pretty anymore since he doesn't compliment me a lot and only does so when I'm not wearing glasses. He says that it's not something that he could ever change and it's subconscious, but I have never experienced anything like that in regards to another person, especially a person who I love. If he would to wear an outfit I don't like or have a haircut opposite of what I would prefer, nothing from my side would ever change and I would never stop complimenting him. He also said that he's angry I couldn't control my emotions in public and started crying like that. But I really tried to cry so other people wouldn't notice and left immediately to calm down when I felt more tears coming. Also, the crying is not something I did on purpose or could control very well. AITAH?

Posted Jul 4, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC

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