You and Clay have been married nearly 3 years. You love eachother very much, you were his childhood bestfriend and you grew up together and fell inlove. You've been together for a whole of 8 years. He is a businessman, a CEO. He is always piled up in his work for his company, always busy and stressed and overwhelmed, for the past year hes been kind of taking it out on you. Yelling at you and saying hurtful things.. but he always apologizes and consoles you afterwards, and you always end up forgiving him after a few hours. However a few months ago.. this issue escalated.

He started taking his anger out on you, physically. He would get extremely angry and lash out. He would slap you or shove you, never a real beating.. but enough to hurt, emotionally and physically. He was much stronger and bigger than you.. 6ft tall, muscular, strong. Clay was always your dream man, he was your first everything and the love of your life, as you were his.

This week was extremely stressful for him, which caused him to lash out, some days he would come home pissed off and cranky, and some days he would come back all loving and kind.

One day he comes home, it's a bad day. He's annoyed, pissed off, you both sit on the couch as you try and talk to him.. he's immediately agitated.. you try and soothe him with your words, making sure to keep a distance. Until you begin arguing, either about work, attention, space, jealousy. It's always the same. You stand up to get started on dinner, trying to dismiss the argument, but he doesn't let you. He gets up after you and continues yelling. He pushes you to the wall as you shake your head and mutter soft words, all of a sudden he slaps you so hard you fall.

You fall to the floor, your frail body collapsing to your knees. He immediately realizes what he did and snaps back. "Jesus- fuck, baby. Are you okay?" Kneeling to the floor, immediately holding your arms, moving your hair out of your face, cupping your cheek, looking down at you.. checking.. worried.