In Craig's Wife, George Kelly's cautionary 1925 Pulitzer-winning play and Arzner's 1936 movie, Harriet Craig marries not for love but for security, placing possessions before husband - and no wonder: her own father had left the family penniless, mortgaging the house for another woman.
Examples of new rogue software like the "Love Bug" and "Melissa" have complicated life for security teams.
So much female obsession is spent on marriage, less it seems, out of love, and more for security.
Where once people longed for love and settled for security, now modern day heroines can pick and choose.
As CNN reported, the phenomenon "stems from our instinctive need for love, protection and security -- feelings and qualities usually associated with home".
Some women provide sex for love, money, security and material goods, while many men give love for sex.
The identical double scream, at 3 24 and 3 28, unleashes a blast of pent-up grievance that will have his loved one immediately calling for security.
Many women place themselves somewhere in the middle of those extremes, looking for love and security in one cuddly package.
This is because children are relatively helpless and are dependent on their parents for love, care, security, and support and because their psychosexual, aggressive, and other impulses are not yet integrated into a stable personality framework.
For the novel's structure and infelicitous tone, Hicks borrowed not only from great comic novels (Hicks is a big Evelyn Waugh fan) but Hollywood romcoms, with their criss-crossing romantic dalliances and inchoate yearnings for love, money, security.
