absence makes the heart go yonder

English

Etymology

From absence makes the heart grow fonder

Proverb

absence makes the heart go yonder

1. Synonym of absence makes the heart grow fonder (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
2. Synonym of long absent, soon forgotten; separation can result in someone finding other emotional attachments.
   • 1989, William J. Petersen, Husbands and Wives, page 199:

     Does Absence Make the Heat Grow Fonder? Sometimes. And sometimes absence makes the heart go yonder.

   • 2012, Sonny Bono, edited by Boze Hadleigh, Holy Matrimony!: Better Halves and Bitter Halves, page 109:

     Work if you must, but don't take a night job. Absence makes the heart go yonder.

   • 2019, A'zayler, In Love with My Enemy:

     Absence makes the heart go yonder, sweetheart. Wherever he's at, that's where you need to be also.

   • 2019, Timothy L. Anderson, Into His Presence: A Theology of Intimacy with God, page 37:

     There is truth in the old adage "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," but it is also true that "Absence makes the heart go yonder." Intimacy with God cannot survive and grow without a sense of God's actual presence with His people in the here and now.