Ab, I urge you to exercise caution in your relationship. I have a friend that told me stories of her abuse growing up. According to her, her father and brother molested her regularly. She told me how she ran away once and ended up living with some lady she met. Her father found her and took her home. She also told me that her father was a trucker and how he used to take her on the road with him and "rent" her to the other truckers. She had other horror stories along the same line.

When we were well into our friendship I found out all of her stories were lies and that she regularly lies about most things. She has a personality disorder and she makes things up for no good reason.

I'm not saying you should not stay with your friend. All I am saying is to be sure the tales he is telling are true. If he lies about one thing he probably lies about others.