A woman on a matchmaking site that refuses to exchange numbers and selfies is suspicious, unless she offers a reasonable alternative.

Should she offer a viable alternative such as providing a social media handle as a means to communicate, or offering to do a video chat, this is a different story.

In such a case, as long as she follows through, this is a legitimate method to verify that she isn’t a catfish.

Not all women are comfortable with the idea of exchanging numbers and selfies with a match.

This is especially true if she has had a negative past experience with a different man she matched with on a dating site.

A match she exchanged numbers with and sent selfies too.

A request for selfies has a tendency to devolve into requests for more explicit pictures.

Suddenly, he no longer cares about getting to know her as a person and is consumed with the idea of seeing her nude pics or photographs of her naked private parts.

Turning down his requests for more explicit pictures didn’t end it there.

He continued to hassle her to send these pics until she became tired of it.

She told him that she didn’t think they were compatible and no longer wanted to talk to him anymore.

He proceeded to call her incessantly until she had no choice but to block him.

The truth is, you don’t know what she has gone through with men she has exchanged numbers with in the past and sent selfies to on a dating platform.

This history makes her twice shy to divulge her phone number or send a selfie to a match for the foreseeable future.

Now, it’s not a given that she has had a negative experience exchanging phone numbers or sending selfies to men she has matched with in the past.

It’s also possible that she strictly isn’t comfortable to exchange numbers and send selfies at this moment in time as she is getting to know you.

Either way, don’t be discouraged should a woman not want to exchange numbers or send selfies, as long as she offers an alternative method to communicate or verify each other’s existence.

As aforementioned, if she offers an alternative means of communication such as through social media or a video chat, she is meeting you halfway in being transparent about showing you that she is who she says she is.

Once you communicate with her through social media or a video chat, you confirm what she looks like.

If there is mutual attraction and chemistry, arranging a meeting in real life is apropos.

This said, in the event she refuses to suggest an alternative method of communicating with each other, and verify that neither one of you are catfishes, it is indeed suspicious.

There isn’t a valid reason for a woman on a dating site to turn down an opportunity to verify that she is who she says she is, unless she has something to hide in regards to her physical appearance.

In which case, she isn’t worth your time.