I think she drove herself into an early grave with worry and broken-heartedness and disappointment. |
Her true-life account details victory over domestic abuse, broken-heartedness, and the struggle to survive as a single mother-plus more. |
Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead. |
From there can develop a real prayer of contrition, of repentance-with a little broken-heartedness and quite a lot of healthy shame. |
I have felt a range of emotions from joy to broken-heartedness. |
I would say broken-heartedness comes basically from the trying experience of disappointment. |