This is normal to feel these worries.
@Lordeterra is a late Millennial based on the age in his profile. Earlier Millennials (birth years 1982-1989) had many of these issues with their Baby Boomer fathers born in the late 1940s and 1950s. Baby Boomer male could be beta males and not face devastating consequences in their lives. That wasn't true for my cohort of 1980s born Millennials and also not true for later Millennials and Gen Z.
These Baby Boomer fathers were wholly unprepared to guide their Millennials sons through a post year 2000 mating environment. That's applicable for the 1980s borm Millennial males with fathers who were present in their lives. My father was mostly absent. My parents did not separate until I was 15 and the divorce was finalized when I was 16. However, my father was working long hours and did not spend a sufficient amount of time with me. After the separation, he was fully absent.
I had to learn how to be a man more from reading internet articles and from talking with my uncle (mom's brother). My uncle did what he could but he lived far away in other region of the USA. He couldn't be there on a near daily basis for me. His presence would have been more helpful in certain masculine area but I would have needed to read articles on the internet to handle dating. My uncle's two sons (my cousins) have both experienced shiity behavior from women and divorces. I think my cousins expected to replicate my uncle and aunt staying together in their own lives (a blue pill perspective) rather than reading the objective truth on the internet as I have (more red pill or black pill).
My father said some similar bullshiit. My father used to say that the goal in life was to make my mom happy. That's some seriously beta stuff there. My dad got me thinking that women were like how he portrayed my mom, some hard to please, demanding woman. That was a bad example.
Women are making more consumer purchase decisions for households so in that sense, your father isn't wrong. Men have been too beta in allowing economic control in households with consumer purchase decisions.