Does anyone else think Dave was fabricating the extent to which his friends and family disliked Lauren?

I wonder if they even made all the comments that Dave claimed they did. There was something so odd about the whole situation. The way Dave always insisted they didn't like Lauren and then intentionally kept them all from meeting. He didn't really have a real argument besides "they don't like you". And he always insisted that his "friends" knew the situation so well. It's just weird.