Does anyone elses partner do this?

I am sorry for the length... I have a boyfriend who I have been with for nearly a year. It is fair to say I can be a little bit jealous sometimes, but certainly not more than is normal, and only when I think I have had reason. I have never been jealous over an ordinary friendship he had with a girl, when they met up and stuff, never. However, I once was jealous because he liked the same girl for years before he was dating me, and still liked her before we were in a relationship but we were talking and stuff, and then was close friends with her during the time we were together at first. It is really not the fact that he had used to like her, it is the fact that when he was dating me he made nasty comments about her that very much implied he was not over her, (although he denied that) and then he was saying/his friend said that this girl liked him, (while he was with me) and so yeah, of course I felt a bit insecure. But I did get over that, I realised he was with me, and if he wanted to be with her he would. He likes to do things as a joke because I tend to believe it easily, and he pretended that he had slept with this girl (in the past), and that one of his good female friends was hitting on him while he was with me (both I later found out were not true, but I got upset because I did not understand why he was making it up- then he called me jealous) He also pretended that a girl he used to have a thing with a while was texting him all the time and flirting, and he was texting her back, and he might see her. I think this is completely normal to be jealous of, so I was. He understood, and then I found out he was joking again. He has said stuff like yeah I would feel jealous too in that situation, yeah sometimes I worry that, but then later said those things were a joke or designed to make me feel better. He said before we were together that he can be a jealous person, and then he later said he was not at all. He made a joke last night that he does not talk to girls on facebook because I would be mad and jealous (and it did not really sound like a joke) but why would I, I trust him and of course I would not stop him talking to girls. He has really never had a single reason to be jealous. I have just one male friend that I actually hang out with, and my boyfriend knows I do not find him attractive at all/he has never been into me, but apart from that, no guy really ever speaks to me, so there is no threat. I am sick of being painted as jealous and insecure. He said once that if I am jealous he does not care one bit and loves me all the same, but now I really do not know if I believe that. I feel like he tries to provoke me to be jealous just so he can call me that, and he is constantly joking that no guys would ever be attracted to me anyway. He would just never admit a single weakness. He has said stuff like he will never leave me, but then once he said that maybe he would find the one one day/if he dumped me I should not be too upset, which really hurt me. Should I confront him? Thanks a lot.

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