A married couple with a 35-year age gap welcomed their son on the same day as the husband’s 70th birthday.
Glenda, 35, gave birth to son Roy Briley III, now seven months, on 6 June 2025, on the same date as husband Roy’s birthday.
The couple first met after Glenda, sought advice on setting up her own insurance business from real-estate and insurance company owner Roy in November 2020.
Hitting it off, Roy asked Glenda to dinner that same evening, and the pair enjoyed “wonderful conversation” and proceeded to go on four more dates over the course of a week.
Moving in just two months after meeting, the couple became exclusive and Roy proposed at dinner on Valentines Day 2022 at the Captain Cook Hotel, anchorage.
The pair married in an intimate wedding of just 20 guests on July 27 2022.
Keen to have a child of their own, they started their IVF journey in September 2022, with Roy undergoing an operation to extract sperm after battling prostate cancer, with Glenda fell pregnant on their third IVF attempt in December 2024.
Son Roy Briley III was born on 6 June 2025 and is Roy’s ninth child – having eight children from two previous marriages.
Roy says he “feels a responsibility” to live as healthy a life as possible for his wife and young son – and works out six times per week on the treadmill with three to four gym workouts per week, and has made the choice to drink only water since 2022.
Roy, a semi-retired business owner, from Anchorage, Alaska, said: “I always feel from my perspective from people online thinking it’s not a good idea, I agree.
“It just happens to work for us.
“I’m not the type of person to say things online, but for whatever reason it’s worked out.
“From my perspective too I shot my best shot when I saw a beautiful woman.
“Roy has my wives face and I couldn’t dream for anything better.
“When she smiles her whole face lights up.
“I do feel as an older man a responsibility towards her and the baby to live the healthiest and best life I can.
“I’m certainly not perfect, I have never drank in my lifetime and never done drugs.
“At this point in time I’m healthy enough, I may not like 35 or 45 but I feel healthy and go on the treadmill six times per week”.
Wife Glenda was 29 when the couple first set eyes on each other at Roy’s office, where the “conversation flowed” instantly.
“I always tell people Roy and I have more similarities than differences.
“We’re very similar in the way he is a very driven individual, very hardworking, very successful and that’s how we met.
“We just had attraction, it was just there.
“The fact he had the courage to ask me to dinner was attractive – a lot of guys see a pretty girl and go shy”.
She says that with family dynamics it “takes a while for people to warm up” to the couple, with her mum Rose, 56, asking if dating Roy was something she was “sure” she wanted.
Roy says despite everyone in his family dealing with their relationship “differently” five years in people are taking them “pretty seriously”.
Eager to add to their family, Glenda had her first embryo implanted via IVF December 2022.
After two miscarriages she successfully fell pregnant with their son in December 2024.
“It’s definitely given us something we’ve really looked forward too.
“With Roy being semi-retired and his other kids living their lives, this gives us something to do.
“All he does is hang out with his son.
“We plan life around him – it’s a busy life and we definitely enjoy it that’s for sure”.
The couple openly share their relationship on social media, documenting the journey to Roy’s birth, finding the reactions from commenters online to be “mixed”.
“I would say to be honest a lot of people are very positive.
“Sometimes people comment on videos and say ‘oh my god how long is he [Roy Sr] going to live?’.
“We’ve had some negative comments where people say really mean stuff like ‘oh my god she’s there for the money.
“I really just ignore those type of comments.
“We have all these text messages from people saying ‘you inspire me and have given me hope, me and my boyfriends have an age gap and are trying to have kids’”.
The couple are planning on having another child and will begin their next round of IVF in December 2026.
