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Getting To Commitment Mr. Steven Carter's great insights into relationship dynamics are presented here in an easy-to-understand language, and without overdoing the psychological perspectives. Many commitment questions are answered here in this book. A must read for anyone afflicted with commitment issues or involved with someone who is.

He's Scared, She's Scared Available for the first time in paperback, this follow-up to the phenomenally successful Men Who Can't Love tackles the issue of commitmentphobia, that persistent obstacle to truly satisfying contemporary relationships. Authors Stephen Carter and Julia Sokol explore why modern men and women are torn between the desire for intimacy and the equally intense need for independence. Drawing on numerous interviews and real-life scenarios, and written with humor, insight, and the kind of wisdom gained by personal experience, He's Scared, She's Scared offes guidance for all of us who want genuine, sustained intimacy with our romantic partners.

Men Who Can't Love This book saved me from going crazy and from wasting any more of my precious time with a man who is a consumate commitmentphobic. I got this book after a therapist friend of mine said that all my complaining and moaning about my commitmentphobic boyfriend sounded just like the people in this book she'd read - "Men Who Can't Love". I got on line and nabbed a copy. What a life saver! My jaw dropped as I read this book because it describes the behaviors of commitmentphobics precisely as I have been experiencing my boyfriend's behavior. It's so true that the more I pressed him for answers while trying to understand his avoidant behaviors, the more he withdrew from me. "I don't wanna talk about it" is his mantra. All his behaviors were laid out like his biography in this book. It was shocking and revealing at the same time.

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"If you are in love with someone who is afraid of commitment,
he or she might try to persuade you that you are neurotic,
that you are too needy and you demand too much."

In this new world of relationship-phobias I have to confess I was with, what I call, a merintho-philo-phobic. Merinthophobia meaning the fear of being bound or tied up, and philophobia which means the fear of being in love or falling in love. He basically feared anything that was a threat to his being the soul connection with himself. His sense of 'self' was very important to him and he guarded it like a valued treasure. He worshipped his privacy, and hated social gatherings. He didn't need nor want many friends, and even the few close friends he did have he often times found 'annoying' and 'invading' of his 'self' time. He felt any outside source was a threat to his 'personal' power, whether it be a co-worker, a buddy, a government, even his girlfriends (of which there were very little). He treasured his alone time and felt violated and scared at the thought of having to share, or to give. He wasn't even happy in 'taking' because he thought of taking as an obligatory gesture - one in which you had to give in return.

Beyond everything else, he hated feeling 'tied down'.

In other words, he was far too content and comfortable with himself, and any person who upset his 'me' time was surely out to steal his soul. His control. Eventually he turned everyone he cared about into a 'rival' - a person whom he must confront as an enemy out to steal his power. Every relationship of his became a 'power struggle'. Him fighting himself over giving love and feeling threatened of losing himself in the process, and her fighting to get him. Argh!

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To him the word 'give' meant commitment and 'commitment' meant losing himself to another. He was very content enough with things being the way they were, and he was not about to open up and risk losing it all by letting another person in. To him, letting another person into his life was like handing over his control and power over his life - to that of another. Giving any of himself was not easy to him. Nor was taking. It all would boil down to fighting the submission - fighting losing his sense of 'self'.

He viewed relationships of all kinds as 'mergers'. Where he blended into them and they blended into him - hence 'loss of self'.

So, he subconsciously started to evaluate and question every relationship he was in. He started to weigh the pros and the cons - and his phobia always ensured that the cons outweighed the pros. He began to see that the relationship would require him to give up his 'free time' - something he worshipped unrealistically. It would require his sharing and giving and taking - all the very elements that were composed of 'losing' to him. He started to dread phone conversations as unnecessary 'warps' in his time, and he began to feel invaded, resenting the very person who demanded anything of him at all.

He then started to regret having even gotten in the relationship to begin with, and frantically searched for a reason to escape it, vowing to not make the same mistake again. Which only fed his phobia. Each and every relationship will become more feared and more suffocating.

What makes it so hard on the one who loves the merintho-philo-phobic is the feeling that they are constantly made to feel like they are the 'enemy'. In my relationship, love became war - something I must fight for, and something he must fight against. We became rivals instead of partners. Everything I said or did he twisted around as a direct attack against him - as if I were trying to 'suck the very life out of him'. Love is definitely a battlefield when you are with a merintho-philo-phobic!

The merintho-philo-phobic fights feelings of love. He denies love.

The merintho-philo-phobic will fight loving you.

Until I can analyze this more *grins*, until the merintho-philo-phobic admits his phobias and confronts them, the best thing one can do is leave the relationship and find another lover who will not make them feel like the enemy.

~by Tigress Luv, the Breakup Guru

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