Its actually interesting to ponder this. Yes, I'm a liar. Where did it start? Childhood. It was subtle...I wasn't allowed to think or feel anything that didn't fall in line with the family 'party' line. So I learned to hide my feelings. Because I wasn't able to be me, I created a me that would work in my family. Well that's one big lie. Then, because 'me' wasn't ok, I would create stories to make me more interesting...or embellish. Well that just grew and grew. And yes, alcohol made it worse. I moved past the lying quite a long time ago. But I lie about my drinking and I hide it....so there's that!