You’re off in your assessment.

• Plenty of married women are not married to well to do men.
• Plenty of married women are well to do in their own right and it has no bearing on this behavior.
• This behavior exists from people across the socioeconomic spectrum, even as in this case, the female ones.
• Unmarried women have been known to be some of the worst offenders.

So, marriage has nothing to do with it. I don’t think it’s true that women drift to the right after getting married either. At most, they get so busy with kids they become more apolitical for a time because they can’t keep up with it all or just don’t have the mental bandwidth to deal with the constant political infighting.

I figure the issue is more of the “Aunt Lydia” or “Uncle Tom” phenomenon.

The only way I can see marriage having to do with this is that we tend to adopt behaviors of people we’re around. Many well to do men are kind of sociopathic and highly competitive in nature. Everything is a competition and everyone is someone to be beat. That’s how they get ahead. It makes sense that callousness would rub off some, even if it not to the level of being sociopathic.