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  • Different people have different eyes. I can see just fine without my glasses out to about arms length but need them to read anything (like street signs) further away than that. However, I often take them off for reading or other close-in work. Are you near-sighted or far-sighted? And your husband?
  • This all hinges around each person's eyes. I am near sighted and wear glasses to correct this. Periodically, I have had minor changes to my prescription over the years for this. However, as you age the lens of the eye becomes less and less flexible, so it gets harder for the muscles which flex the lens to bring things into focus. This means that while wearing my glasses to see things far away, it is becoming more and more difficult for me to focus on things close up. I find myself having to remove my glasses to do so now-a-days. This condition is called "presmyopia". Eventually I will have to get bifocals. Regardless of what you are born with, your eyes WILL change over life...if you live long enough.
  • Presbyopia, the inability to focus on close up things, happens to everyone after about the age of 40. If it has not hit him yet, it will eventually.

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