For around 5 years DH and I have been friends with a man that DH met at work. He is a social man, single, but with plenty of good friends.
He is incredibly kind and our whole family really like him
However, he either lives a ridiculously fortunate life, or he is lying to us.
Examples include the fact that he is about to inherit millions, or that he has played major parts in famous shows, to near death experiences.
some of these he has told us himself, others people have told us about when we talk about knowing him.
a big issue seems to be that he told us that a close family member had died in order to avoid coming on a pre-paid holiday with us. At the time we were heartbroken for him. Now it transpires that this family member died some six months later.
I don’t want to call him out on this, because I saw first hand how upset he was, and maybe there was a rational reason - like two family members. Step or half relatives. And it would seem awful of me to provide proof of the more recent death and accuse him of lying if there was a genuine reason.
we have friends who are in the private detective industry. AIBU to ask them to do a little digging into some of his other claims?
actually, I know IABU. But … would you do the same?