commitment phobe
Fears long-term bonds
A commitment phobe is someone who avoids or fears commitment, especially in romantic relationships.
The term suggests a pattern of pulling away when things get serious—ending relationships, refusing to define them, or sabotaging intimacy: He's such a commitment phobe—three years and he still won't call her his girlfriend.
Sometimes used self-deprecatingly.
- avoidantInclined to evade
- the talkParental facts-of-life lecture
- flakyCrumbly or unreliable
- distantFar away or aloof
- emotionally unavailableUnable to form bonds
cold feet · runner · escape artist · slow fade · bachelor · player · heartbreaker · walls · guarded · skittish · evasive · afraid · intimacy · attachment · clingy · suffocated · trapped · freedom
- dating typesbad boy, player, gold digger, nice guy, hopeless romantic
- dating slangghosting, breadcrumbing, talking, situationship, cuffing
- male typesalpha male, beta male, sigma male, macho man, nice guy
- romantic typeshopeless romantic, romantic, lover, flirt, heartbreaker
- avoidersdodger, evader, shirker, avoider, draft dodger
- seducersseducer, lothario, womanizer, philanderer, rake
commitment phobehopeless romantic
Person seeking idealized love
serial monogamist · nester · family man · family woman · all-in
commitment phobelove bomber
One who manipulates through excessive affection
commitment phobekeeper
One who guards
catch · family man · family woman · good bet
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