JennaJ
Leave, please !!
I obviously don't understand your plight and the depths of it from both your sides. BUT and its a MASSIVE BUT !! There is NEVER an excuse for a man to hit a woman, in fact, there is never an excuse for anyone to hit their partner.
I was in a relationship for 8 years (I am a male) and my (female) partner abused me, it started off as a punch in the back of the head and got worse each time it happened (there was a lot of time in between each incident) but as someone else said, the perpetrator gets "braver" each time. I NEVER hit my partner back, just accepted it, and got out of the house to let her cool off.
Eventually we split up for other reasons, but I am sure that she would have got worse.
Like I said, NEVER an excuse for it, it is totally unacceptable...............
Try and forget that this is your problem for the moment, and imagine that your closest female friend has come to you and told you that her partner had hit her, what advice would you give her?
Thinking of you, and hope whatever you decide, it is the BEST for YOU !!
take care
L, H & K
Nigel (one half of welshBIcouple)
xx