Love shy: Difference between revisions

'''Love-shyness''' is a hyponym of [[inceldom]] and a specific type of sometimes severe chronic [[shyness]] that impairs or prevents intimate relationships.<ref name="Brian G 1989">The Shy Man Syndrome: Why Men Become Love-Shy and How They Can Overcome It</ref><ref name="Crozier, W. Ray 2001">International Handbook of Social Anxiety: Concepts, Research, and Interventions Relating to the Self and Shyness</ref> It implies a degree of [[inhibition (social)|inhibition]] and reticence with potential partners that may be sufficiently severe to preclude participation in [[courtship]], [[marriage]] and family roles.<ref>http://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2004/05000/Cohabitation,_Education,_and_Occupation_of.8.aspx</ref> According to this definition, love-shy people may find it difficult if not impossible to be [[confidence|assertive]] in informal situations involving potential [[romance|romantic]] or [[sex]]ual partners. For example, a [[heterosexual]] love-shy man may in some cases have trouble initiating [[conversation]]s with women because of strong feelings of [[social anxiety]].  The topic of 'love-shyness', with that phrase used verbatim has appeared in academic contexts like an article in a peer reviewed Personality Psychology journal cited 200 times<ref name="Brian G. Gilmartin 1987" /> and a peer reviewed family research journal cited 17 times<ref>Some Family Antecedents of Severe Shyness, Journal: Family Relations, https://www.jstor.org/stable/583584</ref>.