Thanks for your replies.

We took photos today (my parents and I), and although you can see a bump its not very obvious. There's a big bump but the bruising is only slight so it isn't that noticeable in photos ykwim? I put ice on it as soon as it happened and it helped a lot. Someone on this forum suggested to me to go to my GP so that there'd be a record of what happened, which I'm going to do tomorrow.

I'm living with my parents right now, so that's okay but I am a bit worried. He's broken a window before, and I'm scared he might do it tomorrow when he isn't working and he knows my parents won't be home. He'd be pretty daft to do that though.

I'm really proud of how I handled this to be honest, I didn't let him scare me. Even when he pushed me (by my neck and face) into the fridge, the wall and then onto the floor and held me down, I spat in his face. He said that he could kill me where I stood and no one could stop him - i said "Do it then" and smiled. It probably sounds nuts but I was just SO TIRED of him scaring and intimidating me. After he punched me, he was apologetic for all of three seconds until he realized that it made no difference to me, then I was a ***** again. You know what I can't get over? When we were looking at the bump in the mirror, he actually said "Wow, I didn't expect it to puff up like that, you have really sensitive skin. It shouldn't have puffed up like that." HA! Of course! It isn't his fault for PUNCHING ME IN THE FACE, it's my skins' fault for overreacting! What a lunatic.