Too much to overcome?

KEITH: She never went back, Luke.
LUCAS: I don't believe it. They loved each other.
KEITH: Yeah, they did. But you never went to New York to ask her to come back. That doesn't mean she didn't love him, that they weren't meant to be. But without you, Haley stayed out on tour, and by the time she came home, Nathan's pride was just too much to overcome. Pride gets in the way of a lot of good things in this life, Luke.