A man, who has been divorced from his ex-wife for four years, was shocked to discover that she’d recently given her newborn baby his surname.

He says he can’t understand why she gave his surname to her new baby daughter, rather than use the baby’s father’s surname.

“I was married to my ex for seven years until we divorced and went our separate ways four years ago,” he explained on reddit.

“After the divorce she kept my surname. I didn’t necessarily like it because it felt like she was still attaching herself to my family but I could understand the practical reasons enough not to let it bother me. She recently gave birth to a baby and posted a picture of said child and revealed its name. A friend sent it to me commenting about the surname and asking if I knocked her up.

“Following that four more people directly contacted me either congratulating me or asking for confirmation whether it’s my child or not and my mother says she’s been catching whispers about it too at church. I bumped in to her and her sister in town and obviously congratulated her then asked about the kids’ name.

“She said the name. I asked about the surname and she confirmed that the child’s legal surname is ‘obviously’ xyz (mine) and asked if there was a problem. Now that pissed me off. My surname is very unique especially in the area since my family is not originally from her so when people hear the surname they naturally think of my family and assume that this is my kid and it f*****g isn’t. Worse the father is apparently in the picture so I don’t know what the f**k is going on there.”

The man says he never had any children with his ex-wife, and can’t understand why she is still clinging onto his surname, particularly as she is in a relationship with her new baby’s father.

“I straight up said that it was f*****g weird that she’s giving her newborn the surname of the man she’s divorced from who isn’t in any way linked to the kid and sounds almost obsessive. She said she gave her daughter her surname as the mother and not mine. Am I the a**hole?”

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