What sacrifices does Betty make to save her house in chapter 5?

The author then outlines her family’s histories of moving from home to home, which she connects with her family’s concurrent history of untreated mental illness. Both, she says, were connected to the fact that her family lived in poverty. She outlines the history of moving and mental health struggles lived by Betty’s mother Dorothy and Betty herself, a history that she had to discern from working her way through stacks of letters and through court records. She comments that “for the women in my family and their daughters, the constant moving was about staying safe from violent men and finding new ways to pay the bills” (183). She then adds that the women in her family always managed to find ways to leave difficult situations, but “in matters of house and home, they often had nowhere to go” (184), and so the cycle would repeat again.