What would you do?

Got a friend I have known for over 30 years. He is not educated and I am a postgraduate. Until recently we got on well together.
But lately he seems to critcise everything I do and worst copies me. Example yesterday I bought a new pair of reading glasses. Cheap ones. I put them on my desk and went to bed. Today when I got up I looked for them everywhere could not find them. My friend turned up and I asked him has he seen my glasses. He said no. But then suddenly he went upstairs and came down with them. He said they were on the shelf. I know they were not because I checked earlier. Which means he must have had them. What should I do tell him to stop lying and not let him in the house in future or just ignore it.

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Serenitree · F

Call him on it. Tell him that he is jeopardizing this friendship by being deceitful. Ask him if something has happened recently that has him resenting you, or if it's something in a different area of his life that is causing this aberrant behaviour.

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M3JollyMiles · 31-35, M

First, talk to him, and request him to be nice to you and show equivalent respect to you. Just request once, so that he doesn't accuse of not giving him a chance to rectify his actions. Such people hardly change. They change only when they are smoked real bad in public. If he doesn't change then unleash fury on him. Once and for all, this course of action will either bring your friend back to normal or it will make him walk away from your life forever. He'll be ashamed of himself and will regret losing a friend like you!...Good Luck!...☺

3503501a · 41-45, M

He's probably trying to tell u something an ur just not listening I really don't see what the big deal if anything he found ur glasses for u how do u no they weren't on the shelf u don't no wear they were lying can be good thing if done right an under the right circumstances u sound like ur not that patient hope this helps good bye

Serenitree · F

Yikes.

moyesp · 61-69, F

to 3503501a. I did say I'd known him for over 30 years right? And I know the glasses were not there because it was the first place I looked. And I know I left them downstairs on the table the night before as I was working on embroidery then.
Thing is I have noticed other things go missing too when he's around and its only when I say 'where are my .....,' they suddenly reappear. If I had not been looking alongside him downstairs. I think he would have said they turned up there. But as it was I was downstairs so he had to go upstairs and find them!

So as Serenitree says Yikes!

M3JollyMiles I'll do as you say and see what happens will let you know.

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