Absolutely. You left out "he's emotionally unavailable" tossed out sometimes when it's not really the case.
That may qualify too, but it's brought to you by Carter & Sokol in their books "Men Who Can't Love" and "He's Scared, She's Scared" (the latter expounding on female "commitment-phobes"). They coined the phrase based on both their own experiences (they're male and female) and in interviewing hundreds of others who professed to be commitmentphobic and others who were in relationships with alleged CPs (Commitment-Phobes).
As such, it's not even a scientific study at all but more of a poll. It's not even a medical term. It's jargon.
Anyhow, I bring that background up because I wanted to focus on how the authors write about how it is that WOMEN choose these alleged CP men to be with in the first place and/or once in these relationships (They found these men desirable for many diverse reasons), when they go south, try to hang in there against all odds to make it work, banging their head against the wall in their efforts, instead of doing something healthy for themselves. So this pattern of being in dead-end relationships has to do with the women and the choices THEY make.
Basically what CP has in common with everything else, the way I see it, is that when certain events occur that signal permanency in a relationship to the CP, it can trigger the CP to experience anxiety over the prospect and he or she then looks to bail, usually doing so by passive-aggressive behaviors rather than taking the high road and just ending things.
But that passive-aggressive behavior aside, I think the commonality is this: they don't really want to be committed to that person. It's not that they would mind having a LTR, it's that they don't want it with THAT particular person.
Imagine if someone who cherished their space was in a relationship with another person who respects that. Then when they draw close, instead of demanding more time from him or her, or wiggling into every facet of their partner's lives, they continue to permit or create space. The alleged CP then wouldn't feel "trapped" or "suffocated" or "overwhelmed", which, BTW, we'd ALL feel by someone clinging to us, unless we're very needy ourselves and thus lapping it up.
They could easily continue in an exclusive relationship with such a person by simply not wanting more and enhjoying the ride as it was. But NOOOO. Instead, they push, they get rejected.
I think it's simple: two people get intimate fast before they really know each other. She likes him and draws closer and then usually wants MORE. Starts to BOND. The other person says to himself, "Woah! I don't really know this person, and from what I can see, she's nice BUT she's not everything I'm looking for, so I'm not sure... so the last thing I want to do is commit to her right now". She takes the rejection and spins it because that's our POP CULTURE making itself manifest. "Oh, he's commitment phobic!" "Oh, men are afraid of strong women". 50 years ago, according to the pop culture then, they would've said, "He got cold feet!" or "He's a life-long bachelor!".
A guy just wants to feel comfortable, desired, be in lust and have a relatively smooth ride without drama, hysterics, roller coasters or red flags. Until he's found a woman who touches most of his buttons, unless he settles for less, he's going to hear armchair psychological pop evaluations from the women he rejects... as well as from her girlfriends.
