Um yes, hon. Yes. This is classic dv behavior. Abusers ALWAYS appologize and say they will change. And we hope that he does. Why does he have to change on YOUR time, though? How dare he take your property! That is an issue of power and control. I'd be out of there. But sometimes it takes a woman twice. Indeed it took ME twice. The first time was getting thrown against the wall. The second time was getting locked outside of our Chicago-area apartment in my panties in the winter time. (If you don't know how cold a Chicago winter is, then you really can't understand that this was a life and death situation if I didn't find a safe, warm place to go.) This also was symbolic of his power over me. I ended up walking about four blocks away to a restaurant, where the male owner had always been friendly to me IN MY PANTIES and a tank top. He gave me a blanket and let me cry there for a few hours until a girlfriend picked me up. NONETHELESS this was a lucky second dv incident since many women's second dv incident (or even their first) they die. Why stay with a man who you KNOW has the capacity for this kind of violence against women. There are PLENTY of men who don't have violence against women even in their thoughts or their vocabulary. They were generally raised in good families, with parents who didn't hit each other. Look for one of them!

OH MY GOD! Ya you have to leave for sure. What he did was horrible.