Ah, no ... marry a poor, but driven woman ...
I have dated many affluent women, most from high income families, only one independently wealthy (inheritence). But I married a woman from a very poor family.
The affluent women had horrendous spending habits, habits that would sack us if we were tied financially. And I'm not one to let parents help us, and even then, it wasn't exactly easy for them. The independently wealthy woman had a completely warped sense of economics -- the type the classic "that's because you have it" line from The Aviator fits nicely.
I met my wife when she was 19, putting herself through school. She was far more mature, far more responsible and extremely thrifty with her money. She was very intelligent and very driven, wanted to make a name for herself. And that she has.
Beautiful, sexually adept, intelligent, dedicated and extremely low maintenence.
It's rare you'll find a woman who is "independently wealthy." And most of them have attitudes and views that would seriously conflict with mine. Most other women are just from high income families and assume the same rate of spending when you get with them.
Most extremely rare is a woman who has made herself and acquired wealth on her own, and she's going to be older (it takes time for this to happen). I think far too many people live in this fantasy world that Hollywood has created. These women are about 1 in 100,000, and 40+. I've only met one woman who was a self-made that had more than $250,000/annual income due to having over $25M wealth by age 30, and she still worked her butt off.
My wife is on-track to exceed my money making potential in 5 years and will definitely acquire such a salary that is far more stable than my consulting endeavors. No, it won't be more than maybe $80,000/year. So we'll never stop working, but I might be able to work only 3-6 months out of the year and not have anything to worry about. You really have to have $10M in investments to "live off of normally."
We definitely won't be wealthy, we're just slowly, but surely, acquiring income -- aimpoint is $1M by age 60, $2M would be nicer. And that's because we drive old cars, have a small house and invest, invest and invest more. People who make half as much as we do spend 3-4x as much on their cars and houses, and I don't feel one bit sorry for them. We've put $100,000 in investments after 10 years, not including the equity in our home. It's much harder to put aside $10,000/year than you think -- especially when you have 100% of your insurance (self-employed), absolutely no federal/state provided benefits (zilch, nada, zip), etc...
I married a thrifty woman. And most of them are the ones that came from poor families, but were far more driven to not to be poor or blame others for their own misfortunes. That's my wife, right there!