My lying began at an early age when I gradually realized that my tendency to be extremely honest was often met by severe abuse and retaliation from my parents while the kids who consistently LIED got off or even REWARDED for their lies. It finally hit me that my parents, the inspiration for my lying, were much happier and less punitive if I just told bald face lies like all the other kids so I gradually got into BIG TIME lying and everything was A-OK after that! Now I realize that my own parents unintentionally started my lying habit by punishing me when I was hones and letting me off when I LIED! This subtly led to other, more sinister activities as I gradually went further down hill and deeper into rotten behavior behind their ignorant backs. They, not I, set up all the conditions for me to become a very bad and corrupt child while all the time stupidly believing that their boys were "model" children! What hopeless idiots they both were! My brother's parental corruption eventually landed him in State Prison for armed robbery.
In my case, therapy and 12 step groups helped me return to truth telling & break my parental programing to become corrupt and I continue to work on it every day.
good luck,
jim