Kahlo had a volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera.

The imaginary lover of Alicia Ostriker's book is (and is clearly meant to be) a poor second to a volatile marriage of many years and the family life that dominate the collection.

The tensions fan the flames of an already volatile marriage.

Perhaps most worrisome, Ms. Crawford's success has brought new strains to a volatile marriage.

Take this October story on the volatile marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn.

Around the same time period, one of the Herr children died of mushroom poisoning, the Wildenhains' volatile marriage collapsed, and Jane Herr developed breast cancer and died in 1952.

That same year, Turner published her autobiography, I, Tina, in which she talked about her early life and volatile marriage to Ike Turner.

After a volatile marriage, which ended in divorce, she moved to the Island of Maui, and finally the Island of Hawaii in 1974.

With re-recording the song, he had re-written the arrangement and lyrics to address the demise of his volatile marriage to Anna Gordy Gaye, who happened to be the original song's co-writer.

"It was a volatile marriage to begin with, and that was complicated by a weak M.& A. environment in the early 90's," a former Wasserstein Perella banker said.