Thank you for responding, gj.

Yikes. If there’s really a 15-minute meeting before marriage, that doesn’t sound good. Perhaps if there was a version of arranged marriages that emphasized the couple-to-be getting to know each other. Perhaps if the couple were given more chances to turn down the arranged marriage if their relationship and their chemistry didn’t work out.

Seems that I am not very attractive myself either. My height is average, and I have heard accounts of men being rejected by women for no other reasons than not being tall enough. Western women expect men to be charming and “romantic”. Then if we fail to create this “romantic spark” in the first meetings (or the first moments), we get rejected.  Dating is like an ordeal to live up to impossible expectations.