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WEBMISTRESS speculates:
Who is the guy in the song? It's safe to say it's not Lindsey. Stevie has made a few ambiguous comments. She told The Telegraph it was inspired by a summer tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; she has said this tour took place in 1995 after her second bout of rehab, this time for her addiction to Klonopin; she has said that the man in question was a drummer. Based on these clues, many have speculated it was inspired by Dallas Taylor.
The man in question aside, this song shows a very vulnerable Stevie. Getting off of Klonopin was even harder than kicking cocaine, she has said. In addition, her weight gain and the subsequent cruel reactions of others upset her to the degree that she was considering quitting performing altogether. She needed a friend to help her through it, and that is what this man was. I'm not sure they were ever sexually intimate; a "great romance" can just be emotional. That doesn't really matter, though; it couldn't have been more permanent - despite what Stevie wants, she and he both know "it couldn't last" and that even if they gave it a shot, it would end badly. Better to have it this way - his support, his friendship, his help through one of the most difficult times in Stevie's life.
As Stevie puts it in an interview with The Guardian: It was "not a good time... I was freaked out. In rehab, when you're leaving, the last thing they say to you is, 'Don't get married, don't sign contracts, don't buy a house, don't sell a house. Nothing heavy.' Because your judgment is impaired. You're a shell. And you need to go out there and find out who you are, not on tranquillisers. So you walk out into the world and you are a different person. And we were going on a tour and I was terrified. Terrified. And this person just sort of hung with me through that tour and buffered me from the world. And he did save my life."