There’s something wrong with professional women these days. I’ve seen this happen even where the father had a great economic future and wanted to marry the mother, and the mother was already raising a fatherless kid.
Too many women base their life decisions on what they think may get approval from their female peer group. Marrying a man, who the hen party is unimpressed with, will earn disapproval. Staying a "strong independent woman" will not.
Some of my wife's friends disapprove of me, thinking I'm too domineering and misogynistic. My wife doesn't care, because I keep her happy.