OP.
In March you said he:
- Held a lighter to your crotch
- Has repeatedly, for a long time, ripped your underwear and other clothing clean off you
- Split your nipple from pulling it so hard
- Made you cry in both shock and pain on multiple occasions
Then in August you said:
- I'm probably holding on because he's good to me.
If you can say the latter even after the former then your children are not safe in your care. That's how poor your judgment is and how skewed your thinking is. I don't doubt that's due to your previous abusive relationship and this current abusive relationship, but the cause doesn't matter when you have children in the home.
In YOUR HOME. It's not even his and you don't have shared kids.
He is abusive and you're allowing your girls to grow up in an abusive house, which doesn't even belong to the man you're with and you call him "lovely" on here despite that list of things he has done / is doing?!
Wake up. I'm sorry but you're letting them down hugely and every day you stay in this relationship is another day they're learning this is what a relationship looks like and are more likely to replicate it as adults.
People on all the threads have told you, whenever you've said that your girls DO feel what's going on and will be affected by it. You've told them that's wrong. Despite the fact those posters have been through it themselves both from your side and the child's side.
So what are you going to do? It is purely selfish to stay with him and I'm sorry to say that because I do appreciate it's an abusive situation. But it is. You're putting him before your kids. You 100% are. So they aren't your everything, their security and safety is worth less to you than his feelings currently. That's what your actions indicate.
You are in an incredibly fortunate position compared to many people who want to leave a partner. You have your own home and no shared children. Which I'm sorry but means you have no excuse to stay with him, at all.
So what's the plan? Why aren't you making a plan? Call the police, tell them you're going to end an abusive relationship and want them to know the day in case you call them if he kicks off, send the kids to your mum for that day, tell him it's over and that if he won't leave the house you'll call the police to ensure he does. Or ask the police to be there in advance and just have them show up and remove him. They will do it because he is abusive, I've known police do this in similar situations.
You are currently putting him and you before your children.
So what's the plan?