AITA for hiding my salary from my husband

Hi Ghostie, keep me anonymous..

My husband doesn’t know I earn more than him. Actually, he doesn’t know I earn at all. We’ve been married for seven years and he thinks I’m a stay-at-home wife. I work from home doing digital marketing for international clients. I make about R85,000 a month. He makes R35,000 as a supervisor at a warehouse. He pays all the bills, groceries, rent, everything.

Complains constantly about money being tight. I just nod and say “sorry baby, I know it’s hard.” Meanwhile, I own three properties. One in Pretoria, one in Durban, and one in Cape Town. All registered under my mother’s name. The tenants pay rent directly to her account and she transfers it to my secret account. I’m making about R25,000 a month just from rent alone. Plus my salary. I have over R600,000 saved. My husband has no idea. He thinks my mother is the landlord and doing well for herself. She plays along perfectly.

Why do I hide it? Because I’ve seen what happens when men know their wives have money. My sister told her husband about her business and suddenly he stopped working. Started making “investments” with her money. Lost everything. My cousin’s husband felt threatened when she got promoted and earned more than him. He became abusive, saying she’s trying to be the man of the house.

I watched my aunt’s husband drain her accounts and run off with a younger woman after 15 years of marriage. So I decided from the beginning he will never know. When we got married, I told him I’m not working, just doing small online things for pocket money. He believed it. Now he comes home stressed about bills, and I comfort him. “Don’t worry baby, God will provide.” God already provided. To me. But he doesn’t need to know that..right?

Edit; when we got married, he specifically said he wanted me to stay home. I was a recent graduate, and I did exactly that, kind of ..