He may be hoping that you would be willing to become involved in a friends with benefits relationship until you meet whoever it is that you will want to get into a serious relationship with.
He may have actually experienced quite a few girls on the dating website who said that they wanted serious relationships on their profiles but ended up hooking up with him any way.
He may know that there are girls on dating websites who would be willing to have a friends with benefits relationship with a guy until they meet the guy that they actually like enough to get into a serious relationship with.
Being that he may have already experienced this with some girls on the dating website, he may be looking for the same in you.
Another reason why a guy on a dating website asked if you want to be friends with benefits when your profile clearly says serious relationship could be because he actually didn’t read your dating profile.
He may have just looked at your pictures and made a judgment to contact you based on the fact that he thought you were attractive.
There are guys who will not read a girl’s dating profile on a dating website.
If they are primarily focused on hooking up with girls, many of them are not really going to care about what she had to say in her dating profile.
They just want to make sure that she is attractive and in good shape.
That is all they need.
Hence, this guy may have never even read your dating profile.
If he did, he may have skimmed through it very quickly.
He may not have ever gotten to the part where you clearly said that you are looking for a serious relationship.
Another reason why a guy on a dating website asked if you want to be friends with benefits when your profile clearly says serious relationship could be because he is just playing the numbers.
He may be looking to hook up with girls as quickly as he can on the dating website.
Being that all he wants to do is hook up with girls as quickly as possible, he may have copied and pasted the message that he sent you.
He may have sent this exact message to hundreds of girls on the dating website in the hopes that he will get a response of interest from a small percentage of them.
He knows that if he were to send this message to only one girl, the odds of getting her to agree are very slim.
Hence, he may have copy and pasted this message and sent it out to hundreds of girls.
He did not bother reading the dating profiles of these girls.
He is looking to hook up with girls as quickly as possible by playing the numbers. Hence, he is not going to have actually taken the time to read their dating profiles.
His goal is to send this copy and pasted message to as many girls as he can in the hopes of getting a small percentage of them to agree to become friends with benefits.
Another reason why a guy on a dating website asked if you want to be friends with benefits when your profile clearly says serious relationship could be because he may have gotten a different impression about you from what he saw on your dating profile.
He may have gotten the impression that you are more of a party girl based on the pictures that he saw on your dating profile.
Perhaps you have a lot of pictures of yourself at bars, clubs or social events.
Perhaps you have a lot of sexy pictures of yourself where you may be posing for the camera or scantily clad.
Based on these pictures, he may have gotten the impression that you may be the kind of girl that wouldn’t mind getting involved in a friends with benefits relationship for a short period of time.
Even though he may have seen that you said serious relationship in your dating profile, it would have been hard for him to avoid the impression that he got from looking at your pictures.
Pictures speak a lot louder than words.