It is called love-shyness colloquially. The person is called a love-shy.
It can be applied to women also but it is usually associated with men. The term can cover the fear of any romantic interaction with the opposite sex.
- love-shy men are unable to get girlfriends/wives either because they don't know how, or they are too affraid.
love-shy men are unable to get girlfriends/wives either because they don't know how, or they are too affraid.
- it means finding it difficult to be assertive in informal situations involving potential romantic or sexual partners. For example, a heterosexual love-shy male will have trouble initiating conversations with women because of strong feelings of anxiety.
it means finding it difficult to be assertive in informal situations involving potential romantic or sexual partners. For example, a heterosexual love-shy male will have trouble initiating conversations with women because of strong feelings of anxiety.
Note: If you want a phobia word, there is pussyphobia in slang but I don't recommend using it because it is too slangy and has other connotations as well.
Ildan has pussyphobia because he is scared to ask girls out or talk to them. [Urbandictionay]
Although, the term is used in this article about a man who cannot approach a girl without becoming a nerve wreck from nyc.barstoolsports but it is not a serious news site. They got it from a Telegraph article and reworded it.
An extreme case can be gynophobia (or gynephobia):
...is an abnormal fear of women, a type of specific social phobia. In the past, the Latin term horror feminae was used. [Wikipedia]