It is very common for women to dismiss all men as being afraid of commitment. It seems they use this reasoning whenever they want to diagnose any problem they see in men. If a guy doesn’t want to take a morning jog at seven a.m., he’s afraid of commitment. If a guy doesn’t want to go department store shopping for the better part of a weekend, he’s afraid of commitment. If a guy has been dating a women for ten years, and still won’t propose, he’s afraid of commitment. Okay, I concede on that one.
I may not speak for all men. I may not be speaking for many men. I may be speaking only for myself. I don’t see anything wrong or scary with spending the rest of your life with the woman that you love. I don’t even see anything wrong with spending the rest of your life with the woman that you tolerate. Seriously, dating is hard. The constant fear of rejection and the relentless pursuit of self-perfection gets tiring. They can wear on you until you become irrationally afraid of weekends and of any restaurants that have valet parking. Sometimes, we just want it to be over. I am very much looking forward to becoming fat and apathetic about life. Complacency is my ultimate life goal.
Though I don’t think I am afraid of commitment, I know for sure that I am scared of crazy women. I think that if a woman becomes so sure that any man she dates is scared of settling down, she may work herself up so much that she can come off as insane. If I’m on a date, for example, and the woman starts asking me how many kids I want before our bread arrives, I get scared. This is not because I don’t eventually want kids. This is because we have literally known each other for five minutes and I spent all week obsessively getting ready for this dinner. Right now, I am completely committed to making this dinner as pleasurable as possible for the both of us. You can’t just skip to us having kids. Right now, I’m too focused on trying to figure out how to fill the next two hours with inane small talk to produce another life with you.