Heaven Forbid

I'd like to throw this topic out to my heterosexual male readers:

What is it about romantic relationships with women that scare you so much? Why is it that allowing yourself the unmitigated pleasure of falling madly head-over-heels for a worthy woman often equated with certain death?

What is it about getting emotionally intimate with a woman that scares the bejeezus out of an otherwise rational adult male?

Why do some men blame every woman for what one cruel woman did to them a long time ago? Why do some men think that all women are the same, and that we all want the same thing from them, and that we will all respond in the exact same manner once we get it?

What is it about commitment that will send a man running for the hills, when at the same time he would gladly stuff his cock into any suspicious piece of pussy that lets him? Why is your heart far more fragile than your dick?

Why are (some) grown men so goddamned afraid of women that they willingly sabotage any and every possibility of ever establishing a meaningful connection with a compatible person of the opposite sex?

In short, what gives...?