“My boyfriend occassionally drinks and then hits me. He is always sorry about and I keep forgiving him. But I am scared he will do it again. Don’t tell me to leave him because I love him. How can I get him to stop hitting me?”

I know this is not what you want to hear but he will keep hitting you. He won’t stop. He does not love you because if he did, he would not hit you. You have to leave him. If it happened once, perhaps you could try again but you know it keeps happening. When will you leave him, when you are carried off in a coffin? Or when perhaps you have a baby and they carry your baby off in a coffin?