Lovely memory TerryM,
Moggy I can understand how you feel, my late MiL said FiL had never seen her naked either and she was a stunner in her youth. It's nothing to do with how we actually look is it, it's how we feel.
My husband is my 2nd husband and several years younger than me, I don't like the way my body is ageing either but he loves me ... weird man that he is lol
I must admit though that when we aren't able to be intimate because of my health I can get very miserable about my appearance and the whole ageing process. It's when we are affectionate and loving with each other that I feel at my best. I'm not talking about sexual gymnastics, I'm on about the intimacy and affection.
I don't need to be reassured by a man in my life but I do believe that physical, skin on skin contact is very beneficial to our welfare. A genuine hug, cuddle, stroke of the arm in passing mean a lot, perhaps and it's just a thought. If your health prevents the sexual activity you use to share, maybe you both need to have more physical contact with each other .
I do think mother nature is very kind to us older people by giving us equal opportunity to wear glasses and not see everything as clearly as the young. I'm sure your husband like lots of men just sees you for yourself, the loving woman he has spent a huge part of his life with who he adores more than he would ever say.