Why some guys are scared of putting a ring on IT

I am 27, and some would say has reached and even passed the ripe old age of marriage. This is a platitude just as much as it is a fact. In our African setting, when one hits puberty, gets varsity education and can fend for his/herself, the question of marriage inevitably surfaces either within or without family circles. While unemployment can delay the advent of this question for guys, it does the contrary for girls: they are pressed hard and constantly by family, society, their now famous 'biological clock', and a general lack of assertiveness, to scroll through their options, lock down on a target and get him put a ring on it. Contrary to popular opinion, female mostly, guys won't mind getting married, settling down, having someone to talk and bla bla bla. Guys love that so why the ambient reticence and even fear? Why are some guys so scared of marriage. The reasons are many and plenty. Apart from our protracted unemployment status and our inability to provide girls' dream wedding, and not necessarily marriage, our supposedly immunity from age, increasing divorce rates, we are scared of marriage simply because we don't want to be targets. Conversations with ladies leave you with the distinct impression that we guys have become objectives. In order words, ladies no longer see us as life companions but as their way out of want, spinsterhood and society's ridicule. This expectation heaps loads and loads of expectation on guys and we become lifelong ambitions for girls. So where does this leave us, guys? This leaves us feeling more like finishing lines that are left behind one's crossed. No guy wants to hook up for life with a girl who said yes because she was fleeing society's ridicule or just wanted to be Mrs Somebody. Guys will gladly marry so long as the lady in question is walking down the aisle ONLY because she has voluntarily decided to.