Fear of commitment
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Fear of commitment in much popular literature refers to avoidance of long-term partnership and/or marriage but the problem is often much more pervasive, affecting school, work, and home life as well.
The term commitmentphobia was coined in the popular self-help book Men Who Can't Love in 1987. Following criticism of the perceived sexist idea that only men were commitmentphobic, the authors provided a more gender balanced model of commitmentphobia in a later work, He's Scared, She's Scared.
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- Men Who Can't Love by Steven A. Carter and Julia Sokol (ISBN 978-0-425-11170-3) M.Evans & Co, 1987
- He's Scared, She's Scared by Steven A. Carter and Julia Sokol (ISBN 978-0-440-50625-6) M.Evans & Co, 1995
