AT THE grand old age of 75, Doug Euerle boasts 13 great-grandchildren - but that didn’t stop him starting a family with a woman 44 years his junior. Brittany Euerle, now 31, was 22 and pregnant with her ex-husband’s child when she unexpectedly fell in love with an air-force veteran. Doug has since become a doting step-dad to Brittany’s child and is also a new dad all over again to two young girls; regularly getting confused as their grandfather.
The couple, from Clear Lake, Minnesota, have dealt with criticism from family and strangers, but they claim it has only made them stronger. Brittany, now a veteran’s service representative, says: “I hope others know to never judge a book by its cover and to never let something like age get in the way of true love. “I know my husband’s no typical 30-year-old beach model and him being gone one day is in the back of my mind often.
“But we just appreciate every second we have together.” In 2014, Brittany, then 22, was pregnant and working in a hospital laundry room. Whilst Doug was 66 and was the hotel maintenance man.
For a year, they were both in unhappy marriages and would often chat and laugh when they’d cross paths during long shifts. Someone from Doug’s past spread false lies that I was a gold-digger, and that we’d had an affair. Brittany says: “I worked at a hospital that provided medical care for veterans.
“Doug was over four decades older than me, yet he was my favourite co-worker. “Back at home, I l.
