If Mrs. SP felt ugly and didn't even want to see a picture of herself, she was experiencing insecurity that was damaging your R (duh)...but it was not out of viciousness that she didn't accept your compliments or advances, it was out of her experiencing an unpleasant sensation because it didn't match or hold true. AND, some of this can be due to her insecurities, issues etc and some due to your delivery or non-delivery in other areas of the R...
Though my instinctive reaction is to say, "Yeah, this is probably right," at the same time these things I described were happening she was working out more, getting new clothing styles, showing cleavage (first time ever), getting Botox.... all the stuff that signals "OM! OM!". So if she was feeling unattractive, it wasn't uniformly unattractive to all male-kind. Certainly not to Signore Schmuckatelli...
