I fully concur with Lynn and Vickie above. You handled the situation just fine, and you could have done nothing else! He was the bad actor, not you. This continues to be the case in his attitude of not letting your mother see her sister, using this as a means of getting you to "take back" that which you know is the truth. Essentially, he is trying to blackmail you and your family. Is there, in fact, someone strong enough to successfully support your Mom in her efforts to see her sister and do you know, in fact, what your aunt's actual wishes are in the matter? To paraphrase what one of our past Presidents once said, {we} don't barter with terrorists. You did not imagine any of this and it would not be appropriate, in my opinion, that of an outsider to be sure, to retract any past accusations that you know to be true in order to put this bully in a nice golden light. What is to say that he would, even then, agree to let your Mom see her sister? This is a manipulative ploy in my opinion. Stick with what you remember to be true. billieJ