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WEBMISTRESS speculates:
Stevie has said that she wrote this song back during the Buckingham Nicks days, when Lindsey and she were scraping for every penny. To earn money, he toured as a backup musician for Don Everly while Stevie stayed home and earned money doing things like waitressing and cleaning her producer's house. Times were hard! Anyway, while Lindsey was on these tours, Stevie would worry that groupies would throw themselves at him and he wouldn't be able to resist, that he would be unfaithful to her.
In one of those moments, Stevie wrote this song, imagining a worst-case scenario where Lindsey has had "temptation fall in [his] path" and has given in to it. In doing so, she maintains, he will have given up true love, the "kind of woman that'll haunt" him, for a one-night stand, and he would regret it! It's no excuse that he was lonely - he should have been stronger. The last verse expresses Stevie's regret - she doesn't want to leave the relationship that was like "Heaven" but she can't tolerate cheaters. Lucky for Lindsey this was only a hypothetical situation! He was true blue.