Why do guys hide their profile on match
Yep. But if the woman is not perusing and keeping her options open, she could end up being surprised and hurt when he decides to stop browsing and start contacting someone else.
If you tell someone that you want to be exclusive and you both agree to hide your profile, show some integrity and see how the relationship progresses first. If things aren’t going as well as planned, communicate that to the other person and then both parties can unhide their profiles and look for more suitable matches. If one is secretly looking, and meets someone else that they really like, they may end up hurting the other person who had no clue.