You're right about the whole begging thing. Huge turnoff. That behavior has stopped.
During the whole session, I complimented her constantly. But like Saffie has said so eloquently, from my wife's point of view, I could probably find a camel's butt beautiful right now. In other words, she needs validation from someone other than her sex-starved husband.
Her reaction from her friends when they saw the pictures said it all.
Me: 51 W: 50 M 24 yrs EA: since Apr 06 S22, S26, S28 ILYBNILWY:Nov 07
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." Tyler Durden