To be fair, Anna hit Alex too. Believe me I'm the last to give him an excuse, but it seems that she did strike at him twice too. Once when they were in Sophia Anna was messing with him and she kept slapping him in the face for fun. After a while he snapped and started slapping himself hard, like really hard. The look in her eyes was amazing. It clicked in her mind that this guy was had demons. She got upset and and he did the apology thing and it was over in the next couple of hours. But, that day, I too realized that this guy has issues. I wished so much that she had left him when they moved out of Sophia. And then they moved to Tula and the real Alex made his appearance. Sad!