ESPN reported that Cynthia Rodríguez filed for divorce on July 7, 2008, citing "emotional abandonment" and marital infidelity by her husband.

In fact, poor Vada is Job-like in the series of deaths and emotional abandonments she faces.

Like "Running Scared," "The Comedians" is an adolescent's nightmare of emotional abandonment.

Norma's own mother left her to be raised by her grandparents in Idaho, setting up a pattern of emotional abandonment that would be passed on to the next generation.

Dylan biographer Robert Shelton describes it as being about "the intoxication of a night of love followed by the throbbing headache of his partner's emotional abandonment and detachment."

"She felt a kind of emotional abandonment that raised my consciousness."

Her emotional abandonment of Date Bed is one of the turning points in the novel.

In childhood, such women have typically experienced an extreme emotional abandonment by an uncaring parent, Dr. Kaplan said.

For example, you will notice I am not making a scene about you leaving me again; I am now such a one as can handle cruel emotional abandonment.

"You're now such a one as can joke about cruel emotional abandonment."