Before you'd come to Equestria, you knew the stinging, bitter loneliness of being a man who had all but isolated himself emotionally from others because you felt nobody could show you love in kind. Family, girlfriends, and even friends failed to give you the emotional connection you needed to properly consider yourself a healthy individual. Your path had been growing increasingly self-destructive, when you ended up in ponyland, where you were quickly a creature of interest. From there, you met more people in mere weeks capable of drawing emotional responses out of you than you had in your world in... well, your whole life. And as much as you hated admitting it, you feared losing them, because they meant so very much to you.