There's no murder, suicide, manslaughter, rape, handcuffing or plague of cockroaches (as there are in other stories), but the stakes, for the vulnerable couple in this story, are much higher.
"Even when presented with CCTV evidence, Mitchell denied stealing from this vulnerable couple, and could not account for living beyond her means.
The vulnerable couple tries their damnedest to make it work, clinging to the spark that first ignited their kindred souls.
Interventions could include higher subsidies or a voucher system for the most vulnerable, coupled with free transport.
"We are always scanning the circle around us to see what we need to put in place to protect ourselves," said Katrina, 37. A report released earlier this week illustrates just how vulnerable these couples and their children are, both legally and financially.
Crowdfunding is mostly being stalled by fears that vulnerable elderly couples watching a late night-infomercial will be duped into handing over their nestegg to stupid investments or nefarious actors.
This vulnerable old couple are the only link she has to her husband: they are the only people it makes sense for her to love, and she appears to be the only person who loves them.
It has been found that compressor blades with frequency ratios close to unity are vulnerable to coupled bending torsion flutter under the influence of an incoming steady flow.
But they build up into a picture of a world inhabited by characters who are uniquely Gee's - timid, tired, anxious people, vulnerable widows, ageing couples in empty houses, bewildered by the pace of change and life's conspiracy to ensnare them in its "tangles of littleness".
"It makes couples vulnerable to 'emotional fusion' — the experience of being overly dependent on and reactive to each other's ups and downs".
