Why is it so hard to ask for help?

After a huge ordeal tonight of getting caught in a bind of moving furniture etc...some things were brought out in me that I'm taking a look at and realizing a deeper issue going on in my heart that I need some serious work on. I was in a situation tonight where I needed to call and ask some friends for help. Most of these friends are new friends, so I felt funny calling them, but more than that I felt really guilty for asking something like this from them that I knew would inconvenience them. I'm this way with close friends too, and my family. Granted it's easier to ask things from them when absolutely needed, but if I know it's going to be inconvienent to them, and if there's a way around asking, then I'll avoid asking AT ALL COSTS. So tonight after asking some friends for help, I realized in the process that I was feeling a sick feeling in my stomach of guilt which was causing me to want to avoid asking at all and just dealing with my predicament on my own. I guess there's an underlying issue that has been deeply rooted in me for a long time that's being brought to light right now. I'm asking myself, am I that much of a people pleaser that I don't feel I can ask friends for help when in need? I guess I'm afraid that I'll be asking too much, or I'll be inconveincing them too much, and the end result would be a loss of friendship. I guess when i explore that guilty feeling that's where it takes me.....I'm afraid of losing that love and acceptance that I've been building with these friends. I'm believing that care is conditional and that I need to perform a certain way to earn their love. And funny enough, I think one of the ways I recieve love from people is when they are able to help me out through acts of service, and yet I'm deathly afraid of asking people for this.