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Chad Michael Murray had a few rocky hills to traverse in his personal life before he reached the mountaintop.

But once he crested the highest peak and found Sarah Roemer at the top, he settled in to enjoy the view and has been nesting ever since.

"I've had so much growth over the last 20-something years," the 42-year-old told Parade in October, his noted timespan dating back to the beginning of his six-season run as Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill in 2003 and including his five-month marriage to costar Sophia Bush in 2005. (Which, as he recently said, occurred when he was "a baby" who "didn't know up, down, left, right.")

Since then, he'd become "a family man," he added. "I've got my amazing wife and three beautiful babies and that's my pack."

But while the Buffalo, N.Y., native is obviously light-years away from his earliest days in Hollywood, you could say the growing-up process accelerated once he met Roemer in 2013 on the set of the Crackle series Chosen.