I am looking at some of the divorces happening amongst my peers and what I notice is that men have the ambition to marry an extremely successful woman. However, I wonder if this kind of creates a dynamic that ends up damaging the husband's self-esteem. For example, I know a guy who was working in finance, he's very ambitious, an opportunist and is attracted to people with loads of money. He decided to marry this girl who works in property. She's very successful and earns a lot of money with good bonuses. Unfortunately, their relationship was imbalanced and she's extremely bossy. Their marriage has ended in a divorce that she initiated. I feel sorry for the guy, but in all honesty, I think he had his priorities wrong from the outset.
SImilarly, you observe lawyers marrying lawyers, doctors marrying doctors, bankers marrying bankers. Yet, some of the happiest and successful marriages don't have that sort of equal leveling. Gone are the days when a doctor would marry a nurse, or a lawyer marry a secretary and yet some of these marriages are the most successful.
A woman who has the ability to become top of the league in a legal profession, banking, property, e.t.c. is most likely to have some kind of prowess about her will most likely also be the one wearing the trousers in the relationship and the man who marries her has to be extremely humble and be of strong character to accept they won't be leader of the household.