Expert: Azure - 7/8/2006

Question
I met my boyfriend 5 months ago online. It was going great for a while. Till the next thursday I learned he cheated on me. And for those next couple of months I cried. Then I learned he cheated again and told me he couldn't stay in a commited relationship. I cried all the time. Then In May it got better. We got a apartment together and he changed. I was always worried rather he would cheat again. Then the worst happend. He hit me. With belts. Bruises. In the closet because I lied to him. Even If I did dishes wrong he got angry and punched me in the arm. I thought the pain would be over in him cheating. But now its July and on friday. My neices were staying with me. And he got angry because one of them were cooking when he wanted to cook. He closed the door and got the belt because I talked "over him" and he beat me in the closet while my neieces were in the other room. And told me to get a pizza. I left my neieces at the house, because he said I couldn't take them home. I got so scared. Then I got the pizza and he hit me because it wasn't cheese. Then the kids were running down the halls and he got out and told me to take them home. He got angry because they wouldn't get in the car. And me and him were in the car and the kids were standing outside saying no. Then he got out and went to my 13 year old neice and scratced her arm. And I came over and said Don't hit her! He gave me a black eye and threw me on the ground and my neieces watched as I was getting beat. He went in the house and I took my crying neieces to my mother's. Everyone was there. And I told them all finally. He left. I took him back. But then July 4th. He choked me because I was wanting to get out the house and take him home. He left and 2 days later came back crying. Saying he prayed and everything was ok. Now he's still in my house. And I'm just so in and out of what to do. He has no where to go and he's at my house right now thinking im coming back after I do laundry. But I don't really want to think about him. I'm just so hurt by him in these past 5 months. He said he would change. But am I doing the right thing by staying here tonight or going home? He said If I leave he'll get someone on the internet to stay with. I'm so confused. He says he reads the bible. But no one can change overnight right?

Answer
get out AS SOON AS POSSIBLE; tell those closest to you what's been going on; call the police and have him arrested for assault, and have a restraining order placed on him so he can't come near you; don't communicate with him again; then get counseling to find out what made you put up with this criminal abuse for so long..