I am a 27 year old female dating a younger, angry man (22). I knew there would be complications to dating someone younger, I wasn't in full realization of what those complications were but maybe because they weren't the complications that I was necessarily thinking of. I won't bore you and divulge the entirety of our relationships and problems, only enough to get some advice. My boyfriend is an angry guy; angry of a broken family, a father who walked out when he was 12, a mother who is always right, and when that father was present he wasn't the most nurturing figure. Over the year and two months we've been dating, at around month five was when I started to see the anger and that's when the verbal stuff started. He's called me a ***** and a slut once, called me a *****, told me to shut the **** up, on and on this list could go. I'm a very strong woman in a sense, I don't like to give up easily and I try to hold my relationships together even when I know it isn't worth it anymore. I'm being slowly and painfully broken down over the verbal abuse but I've always been sure that he would never get physical with me; but tonight he did. Now he didn't punch me in the face or anything but we were outside and he got in my face and was screaming at me I kept backing up and when it got to the point that I knew that this argument was going no where fast, I tried to remove myself from the equation. He grabbed me, really hard by my arm and started pulling me towards his car to try and make me get in. I fought at him, puling away and telling him to let me go and he transferred his grip to both of my hands. When I kept trying to pull free and was fighting him in earnest out of fear, he grappled me into a bear hug and squeezed. I'm inside now and he's sitting outside, he called me crying and apologizing for what he did but I feel numb and dead inside. I love him so much, I really do. If you've experienced something like this...does it always escalate to hitting? I'm terrified.