Kathy,
I can't do too much about your friend - for one, I need his birth city, and two, it would be nice to have his birth time.
Without a precise birth time for you, I cannot identify the houses the events are going on in, but there are two transits that are going on.
One is that Pluto is squaring itself, and that will bring a transformation about for you - good or bad is up to you. That will last the rest of this year. The other one is that of Uranus conjuncting your natal Saturn, and this one will last into next year, and the issue of freedom/vs/structure/limits will be brought up. Depending on the actual time of your birth, it is happening in either the house of your self, or the house of your values/finances.
I ran your friends chart, using your town and time of birth, just to see if there is anything that is going on that is obvious - mind that I definitely cannot say much more about it than what I am until more information is available.
Uranus is now transiting by opposition his Venus, which makes sense in that he got involved with someone else. That will continue again for all of the same time period as your transit to Saturn. The Saturn Venus opposition is a karmic indicator that you have known each other in a previous life. Now, where his time of birth really makes a difference is in his Moon - it is approaching his Venus Pluto conjunction, and if he was born late in the day, then it is conjunct.
Thanks
Dave