Can I apply for immigration through VAWA?

My husband and I met online through yahoo personals, we dated and got married about 4 months later. Everything was fine, we both loved each other and he was a great father to my son. After about 9 months our marriage began to go downhill. The abuse started physcologically and emotionally. My husband spit in my face, kept me away from friends and talked down to me. When he medically retired from the military he refused to get another job. I was forced to work and pay our bills. He began to be abusive in cycles. After several months of screaming and hitting or shoving me at least once a week, I asked him to see a psychiatrist because I thought he was bipolar. He did. He was on the medicine for 2 months and his temper was under control. He stopped taking the medicine and his moods came back full force. One morning he hit me so hard in the face that I ended up having to go to the hospital. He was arrested for domestic violence and orderded to take classes for abusive spouses. We tried to work on our marriage and even went to an initial consultation for marriage counseling but it was too expensive to do the therapy. After that abuse, I began to have anxiety attacks which landed me in the hospital. I lost my job. We moved to live with my parents because neither of us had money. While at my parents he continued to treat me bad, screaming, hitting and breaking things. He refused to look for a job blaming me because he now had a pending charge on his criminal record. After 6 months of him coming and going from my parents home he finally left when he finished his court ordered classes and got a job. He does not support me in any way. During the 2 years that we were married, I was unable to get pregnant because I have irregular periods and do not ovulate. I also have fibromyalgia and take really stong medications for pain management. He has threatened to kill me on several occasions.