Infront of him he would beat the crap out of you? That is bad. I am not suggesting to just forget it. But you need to take control. You need to change the situation. Become the aggressor. That means detaching from him. Quit talking to him. Leave him alone. He wil either start missing you and may miss you bad enough that he is willing to change his behavior or he will go his seperate way. Either way you win. Because you find out what was meant to be in a sense. My email to my ex.( I stole it from a post) she says that she is coming back to stay this weekend. I don't believe that she will show. She has lied before. But here it is-it might help your thoughts. In fact, I had an epiphany of sorts last night. I know for certain I will happy again because there are only two possible outcomes:
1. I will repair my marriage and Wendy and I will never take each other for granted again and our love will be stronger than it ever could have been prior to going through this...OR
2. I will realize Wendy and I are not right for each other and I will move on and live the life I was meant to have, but could not have realized without going through this process. Now I am saying this because if you do leave him alone this could happen otherwise it looks to me like it going to go really bad.