It only happened three times due to his alcohol consumption. I, personally do not drink.
He started with emotional abuse, which I never believed and I dished it back to him and he slapped me.
He then moved on to control, he wanted to know what I was doing every minute of the day. He called 15 times a day, while I was at work. This man was a Graduate of an Ivy League College and Harvard Business School. He had a very good job and he had two sides.
After I went through my experience with his control issues I showed him the door.
He refused being ditched and he beat me so badly, he almost killed me. At that time abused and battered women was really picking up steam. That night I tried to leave and he took my car keys. The idiot forgot I was an Equestrian who was in open jumping, no fence lower than 5 feet. I tossed 120 pound bales of hay, mucked stalls and carried huge pails of water and oats. I could jump a four foot fence bareback. In other words, I was really strong physically and emotionally LOL. He started to come after me again and I grabbed a fire poker and stuck it in his groin with every ounce of strength I had. I went to my best friends house, she and her husband were horrified. I spent the next few nights with them.
I never saw him again and I started to help abused and battered women in NYC.