Why do some men feel like they must hit their fiance?

you know what.. no matter how much anger, stress, or whatever he was feeling, no matter how bad it was a man should never hit or physically hurt a women. or he is not a man. if i where you i would be really carefull and you shouldn't have apologized for anything you are still not married and you said you both have been really busy and hadn't had much time to talk about things. Plus i don't think that what you did was really that serious to deserve that. If you really love him and don't want to let him go you should talk to him and let him know that you will not tolerate such behavior because if you do not let him know he will think its ok and continue doing it in the future. i wish you the best of luck and hope you do the right thing.