A pregnant mum has been blasted after refusing to give her unborn son her husband's surname.
The mum-to-be married her husband three years ago, but kept her own maiden name at the time, despite tradition being that the woman takes the man's name after their wedding.
Despite her decision she and her husband agreed that even if she kept her maiden name, their children would take his name.
However now she is expecting the couple's first child she is going back on that agreement, and wants their child to have both their surnames - but her husband and his family are furious.
The woman posted on Reddit's AITA forum, saying: "When I married my husband I kept my maiden name which he was perfectly okay with.
"We already discussed this and agreed that any future kids we have will automatically take his last name. His family considers this huge deal and I decided to keep to just go with it.
"But recently I started thinking about it a lot more and figured that it would be unfair for my unborn son to take my husband's family name and not mine. I talked to my family and they said my husband and in-laws are ridiculous to push this on me without a compromise expecting I go with it."
The woman has told her husband she wants their son to have their surnames combined - or she would be changing his name to hers.
She added: "He was confused saying we had an agreement and then asked what was the cause of this sudden change of mind. I told him and he said I can't just do that and called me selfish when I pointed out that I'm the mother I get a say too.
"We went back and forth on this and he said no way he and his family will let me do this to his son, as if my last name is a disgrace. We had a fight and we stopped talking after this.
"He said that I broke and violated my part of the deal and I should just 'deal' with it now but I won't accept it."
The woman asked fellow Reddit users whether they agreed with her or her husband.
One said her husband was in the right: "You literally mention that you’ve had this promise at least since you were married and have both discussed and agreed! He is right to be upset knowing you have already agreed and it’s a big deal to his family, which you are aware of."
"It must be out of nowhere for him, yes you are the wife and future mum but that doesn’t mean you can just switch sides and go back on your word whenever you feel like it."
Another added: "Hyphenated is a reasonable compromise, but you’re still an a**hole for agreeing to give them his name and going back on it now that it’s time to follow through on your word."
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