I have always had shame from this, but it didn't really hit me until a few weeks ago. As a kid I was semi-forced to do sexual things with another boy who was 3 years older than me. I was 4ish and he was around 7. In the beginning I thought it was a new game but it started getting out of control. By the second day of this "game" I wanted it to stop but he said that if I don't do what he wants, he would do bad things to my family and if I told anyone he would hurt me. It went on for about a week or two until my mom found us together one day and ended it. I couldn't tell her what happened and why I was undressed, so after a while she dropped it. He lived right beside me in the next house and I would see him often and he would tell me about how he would kill my family for what I did to him. He moved a few months later. He was only 7.

Is this considered abuse?

I would think that because he was so young that it was just exploration, but he was so mean about it. I don't know what to think about this situation. Any advice will be much appreciated.