I ghosted a guy I was dating because I found out he has a history of punching women

A couple months ago I met a guy I really liked a lot. He was very confident, charming and handsome. He had a good job and lots of friends to hang out with. He made me laugh and was very mature in the way that he talked, so I was really impressed with him. We went out the first time and everything seemed cool. He paid for our entire meal and we went to his place. We made out and had sex and he had offered to drive me back to my place since I didn't have a car, which was really nice.<br><br>Over the next couple weeks, everything seemed all good. He was always coming up with new things to do to keep me entertained and despite being very confident, he didn't come off as the type that brags a lot. He seemed to have his life together, had a decent amount of money and had lots of friends to hang out with. One day he proposed we go to a concert together and I was pretty stoked. As we were doing all of this, I never really had any bad vibes, so I thought that things were getting serious.<br><br>One day I was talking to a friend of mine and she asked me about the guy I had met. I was explaining the details about him and she just kind of stopped me, saying she had heard something bad about him. She said the guy I was dating was her old friend's boyfriend. Apparently he was in a relationship with her until last year when they broke up. When they were together one day he got mad at her for something and punched her in her face and left a mark. She was in pain for a few days and had a giant bruise on her face. She said that she was really scared to say anything because she was convinced he would make her regret it if she did. I was in complete shock that he had a history of hitting his girlfriends.<br><br>I was in shock. I didn't know how someone could punch a girl in her face. I had thought that he seemed like a good guy, but now I could tell something was off. Despite how good of a time I was having, something didn't sit right. I just didn't like the idea of being with someone who beats women and I was kind of afraid to say anything to him. I decided to ghost him and stop answering his calls and messages. He kept calling me and texting me for a while and eventually told one of my friends to tell me that he was really worried something had happened to me and that he didn't know what had gone wrong.<br><br>He kept saying he didn't know what had gone wrong and that was infuriating to me. Not only did he have a history of punching his girlfriends, but he was trying to lie about it to get back with me. Now I really don't know what to think. I never would have expected him to be a guy who would hit a girl in her face, and that is just ****ed up. I don't know what to do or how to feel.