This isn’t exactly what you thought a first date with her would be like.

After matching with her on a dating site and having a nice back-and-forth, you are ready to meet each other.

But there is a crux.

She wants to bring a friend.

This has you unsure of how to go about this first date.

On the one hand, you get that she is worried about her safety, as even though you have gotten along with each other on the online dating site, you technically remain a stranger to her.

This reasoning does make a good amount of sense, as she technically only met you on an online dating site, and as a woman, she worries about the prospect of you being a serial killer and her being on the 9 o’clock news.

This said, you don’t feel all that comfortable with the prospect of having to deal with what is technically her chaperone the entire date.

You are already aware that you won’t be as comfortable as you could be if there was someone else tagging along.

This is all understandable.

This is most likely the first time as an adult that you have had to contend with the prospect of a date bringing a friend.

It’s a novelty, and you are justifiably on the fence on what to do or how to interpret it.

Usually, a girl who feels a strong romantic connection with a match but is still worried about her safety is more clandestine in how she goes about safeguarding herself.

Rather than asking to bring a friend and being too obvious with her concern, she puts on her detective hat and does some investigating.

She looks you up online to see what information she can glean about you.

Subsequently, she provides any pertinent information she learns about you to a friend or family member before heading out on a date with you.

On top of that, she makes sure that they know the location where the date is being held.

Some women can go as far as having a friend go to the same location, find a spot, and clandestinely observe you two from afar.

You see, she has a load of options if she is genuinely worried about her safety.

Not to mention, if she was so worried about her safety, she would choose a location to meet where she already knows the staff, several of whom are already her friends, so that they keep an eye out for her.

You would be none the wiser.

There are several measures women who use online dating platforms already adopt to safeguard their safety.

Being that she is fully aware that asking to bring a friend on a date risks killing any built-up romantic vibe that was already shared online between you, she finds other ways to safeguard herself.

With all of this in mind, the fact that she has told you that she wants to bring a friend is likely a sign of a lack of romantic interest or very lukewarm interest.