He sidesteps why Lorraine's important to him, not because it's sexual but because he's ashamed, somehow, like a child, of the fact that he's vulnerable and Lorraine makes him feel like that's okay, like it doesn't make him less of a man to be unhappy and scared all the time.

"Then why are you doing this? Throwing a fit over the fact that I have a friend I haven't bothered to vet by you yet when I haven't even talked to her in months, then as soon as I say something about the fact that she's important to me you throw it in my face?"