Is what my step dad did to me when i was little normal?

After my mom and dad divorced when I was around six years old, my mother immediately remarried. That summer my older sister, my mom, my step dad, and I went up to spend a few weeks in our summer cottage. One day my sister and my mom went to run some errands and I was left alone with my stepfather. It was all going pretty well until he turned off the movie we were watching and turned to face me on our couch. He started talking to me in a way that made me very uncomfortable. He was telling me he knew that I was a 'very sexual being' and that 'sometimes I want to bend you over my knee and spank you, but other times I want to take you into my bedroom and make love to you'. I was only 6 years old, so I didn't know what those words meant until years later. However, my instincts were telling me that something was definitely wrong. I cried and cried to call mom, asking when she would get home. I just wanted her to get home.

About a year later my younger sister was brought into the world by my mom and my step dad. After she was born everything was different, and instead of words, he started to use his hands. The first time I can recall him touching me was when I was 8. I had had a nightmare the night before, so I'd climbed into bed with him and my mom. Because my mother was the breadwinner of the family at the time, she had left for work early that morning leaving me sleeping next to him in the bed.The next morning I woke up to him staring at me in a way that sent a warning through my body. He started rubbing my thigh and asked if he could touch my privates. When I laughed nervously and said no, he asked if he could at least just see them. Scared, I jumped off the bed and ran to my room. That day after I got home from school all the doors were locked and no matter how hard I pounded on them and screeched that I HAD to go to the bathroom, he wouldn't let me in. So, I pissed myself on our front steps at seven years old. I was mortified, and I realize now that he was punishing me for refusing him.

For years after the incidents the touching would waver, he would feel up my thighs and my back side, even after I made it very clear to him that I was not okay with the situation. I know that what he did to me was wrong but he never put his fingers inside me or raped me so would he even be held responsible for doing the things he did to me in a court of law? Does it even count as molestation? What is your take on this?

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  • dinz

    When a grown man asks to touch, see or even mutter anything that implies they wanted to have sex with you it is molestation.

    If I was you, I would report him.

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  • NeuroNeptunian

    Yes, it counts as molestation.
    Yes, it would count as molestation to the court.

    If a person touches you against your will, it is illegal. If you have made it clear to him you do not want him touching you, it is 200% illegal. If he touched you sexually before the age of 18, he is a sex offender and a pedophile. Not to mention, a disgusting excuse for a human being, husband and father,

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  • fratom

    I am certain you are a very intelligent woman now, you have shared your story with a few, who no doubt have told he molested you and all he did to you was very wrong. so don't be making reasons for not reporting him: a young girl of 6/7 being spoken at in such a filty minded adult male is certainly total abuse of your innoncence: wetting yourself in public was totallly out of fear so don't blame yourself for that: you were only a child and sadly you were not his child so he felt it was ok to talk to you and touch your thighs and bottom: Bad, bad man: so report him or get advice how to cope with what he did to you in your innocent years

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  • RoseIsabella

    I don't know how old you are now, but what you're describing is abuse.

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  • Avant-Garde

    Even if he didn't have sexual intercourse or touch your genitals, what he did would still be considered child molestation or sexual abuse.

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  • Maki_P

    I don't think touching or harassing a child is any different from rape, so no it's not normal and you should denounce him

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  • Anonymous200

    It counts as molestation. See if you can report him as a sex offender. He needs to go to jail.

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  • Gooddaddy

    Normal...so long as you are now having fun with him cause your grown up and you need him to make you a woman

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  • stankpussy

    normal

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  • will you make it your normal?

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  • thegypsysailor

    Are you really so out of touch with the world you ask this question with a straight face? Or are you just stupid?

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    • Ellenna

      Hey, how dare you attack someone so vulnerable? I've just lost all respect for you.

      How ignorant are you that you don't realise how child sexual abuse fucks up the victim's head and leaves such confusion s/he can take years to sort it out, sometimes never

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      • thegypsysailor

        The point is, of course it was abuse. How out of touch with realty does one have to be not to realize this at her present age?

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        • Ellenna

          Never heard of people being in denial to cope with memories or situations they can't yet deal with? Attacking them for that is the opposite of supportive: instead of being so ready to criticise someone who's been traumatised when she was a vulnerable child, it would be humane and respectful to keep your mouth shut rather than add to her pain.

          I went into such strong denial after sexual abuse as a small child that I didn't remember it until I was in middle age, and not planted by one of those unethical counsellors, by the way, before you or anyone else jumps to false conclusions. When I was raped I "forgot" it had happened for 48 hours until something reminded me.

          It's a common and understandable way of dealing with trauma but I guess if you want to make yourself feel superior at a young troubled person's expense and demonstrate your total ignorance of the human psyche, no-one can stop you. I wish I could though before you cause any more pain with your cruel ignorance

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    • cupcake232

      I wldnt say she is stupit I was at he age of 11 wen my stepdad touchd my body. I tld my mom evrithng bt she dd ntn abt it I strtd wrting my own book abt wt he did to me I ws dateing ths amainzing guy I fell pregnant an gve brth to a butifull girl an tody I mke sure no one touch her I got maried to ths guy bt as years wen by he cheatd on me we new each othr for 10years bt we wre maried for 2year wen he cheatd I leat him we r serprtd for a year now an tody I becom a lesbian becoz I tld my fam the day I move on I move on wt a girl. Coz I'm nt gveing my bby girl a stepdad an let him do the thngs mto her wt my stepdad did to me

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      • suprtung

        You should have stayed in school and learned to use complete words.

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      • thegypsysailor

        Totally unintelligible post. Why bother to write something if nobody can understand it? Now that IS just plain stupid!

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      • chuy2

        What makes you think woman won't molest kids? Is not strictly a guy thing you know woman are cable of doing the same things men do specially lesbians girl on girl stuff so I would think before doing anything don't think of yourself think about your child you're putting your need before her red flag number one reason kids get molested

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      • Convictsbitch

        Are you retarded or something?

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      • thegypsysailor

        you are asking now. how old are you NOW? dense

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