This person is really hard to pin down in terms of details. He will make
generalised statements about having a happy family both growing up (and
now with his son) but no actual evidence of close relationships. Similarly,
there is a need to appear successful, wealthy, educated but without a lot of
evidence. May even make mistakes in general knowledge or language (like
getting proverbs wrong or mixing metaphors) but talks about how welleducated
he is. There is a sense that he is misunderstood and when you try
and pin down the specifics he just gets frustrated that you “don’t
understand”.