A Mother On The Run-Season 3 Trailer

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What choices would you make to survive when the system designed to protect you repeatedly fails? Season 3 of Dismissed: True Stories follows one mother's harrowing journey as she flees domestic violence with her children across multiple states for nearly six years.

The nightmare begins with a knife at her throat and a terrifying threat: "He told me he was going to cut my scalp off and said if I screamed, he was going to make sure my kids have nightmares for the rest of their lives." What follows is not just an escape, but a desperate fight for survival that continues long after leaving her abuser. Despite filing "a whole string of police reports from multiple cities, multiple states," safety remains elusive as her ex-partner refuses to give up the pursuit.

This season delves deep into the reality of domestic violence survival—the homelessness, hunger, sleeping on floors, and constant relocation that becomes normalized in the quest for safety. We explore how abuse ripples through generations, with our survivor noting that her mother was "truly my first abuser in life." When backed into a corner with few options left, survivors face impossible choices: "Have you ever considered sex work?" becomes a legitimate question when conventional paths to stability have been exhausted.

Dismissed: True Stories centers the voices that society too often ignores, challenging listeners to witness the full complexity of domestic violence survival. This podcast is created by survivors for survivors, acknowledging that leaving an abuser is often just the beginning of a much longer journey. Subscribe now and join us on October 3rd for a powerful season that refuses to look away from the stories our society too frequently dismisses.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
So he held me hostage at knife point.
He told me that he was going tocut my scalp off and he said
that if I screamed he was goingto make sure my kids have
nightmares for the rest of theirlives.
This season on Dismissed TrueStories, we have been running
from my ex for over five years.
We're almost at six years atthis point.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
One mother's fight to keep herself and her children
safe.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I have a whole string of police reports from multiple
cities, multiple states.
We've relocated again and again, and again and he just refuses
to give up.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Survivors of domestic violence often have stories
that are dismissed, and thisstory isn't just about a broken
system and a woman on the run.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Being homeless, staying from place to place, not
being able to shower daily,having to sleep on the floor
pretty often just being hungry.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
It's a story that shows that survival is never
easy, a story that shows thatabuse doesn't just end when you
walk away for good.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
You know there was so many times that he beat me
where I had black eyes.
I had broken blood vessels inmy eyeballs.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
And what does life look like when you're on the run
and you're failed by the peoplewho are supposed to love you?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
I've realized that, you know, my mother was truly my
first abuser in life.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
And what happens when you're backed into a corner?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
We feel like, as soon as he gets out, we are in
danger and we need to relocateASAP or we may not survive this
next encounter with him.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
What choices would you make to survive?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
And she says well, have you ever considered sex
work?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Dismissed.
True Stories stories, seasonthree a podcast for survivors by
survivors.
Subscribe and tune in october3rd.