Arranged Marriages are a blessing for introverts

I am new to this thread so IDK if this has been discussed before but just wanted to say this. I am happily married almost 2.5 years via arranged marriage and I believe if it were not for arranged marriage, I would have remained single forever.

As a guy, I have never had any relationships. Issue is that I usually can't tell if a girl likes me or not so I don't even ask out most girls because I am afraid of being called a creep who was waiting around to ask a girl out after pretending to be her friend. There have been a few instances when I knew a girl liked me. However, I was not into casual dating and was pretty sure that I would fall head over heels in love with a girl if I started dating her and would want to marry her. So I resisted asking out even the girls whom I had a suspicion might say yes because I was afraid of what my parents might say when I ultimately tell them I want to marry her. Result is, I haven't asked out (or "proposed" ) a single girl in my life.

From what I could tell, my wife is also just like me. She too was the quiet type in school and college. I have jokingly asked her a few times if we had gone to the same school or college and I had proposed to her, would she have said yes and she honestly responded that no, she wouldn't have. Reason is the same. She wanted to avoid drama with her parents and wanted to maintain family relationships. I appreciate the honesty.

Anyway, I feel like Arranged Marriage is a blessing for somewhat reserved people like me and my wife. I never felt pressured to go out and try and find a girlfriend to marry because I knew that I had the safety net of arranged marriage. I especially have a hard time maintaining normal social relationships like friendships so to go out, find a romantic partner by myself and successfully carrying that romantic relationship until marriage stage would have been a nightmare and an unnecessary burden.