The phrase "abandon in order to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining the reason for leaving something behind to pursue another goal or action.
Example: "She decided to abandon her old job in order to follow her passion for painting."
Alternatives: "leave behind to" or "give up to".
But something's been lost along the way, too, or at least dimmed: a certain tenderness "Girls" had to abandon in order to keep going.
All over downtown Mexico City — which the middle and upper classes had begun to abandon in order to move to wealthier, more modern colonias nearby — artists, writers and intellectuals started renting or simply occupying small rooftop rooms.
And the problem can best be framed as: How much of President Bush's pre-Sept.-11 foreign policy agenda is he ready to abandon in order to advance his post-Sept.-11 agenda?
And, indeed, the Democrats have basically abandoned any gun control effort of the one-size fits all variety precisely because that's the position they needed to abandon in order to win the electoral votes of Colorado and New Mexico.
You're right that she feels obligated to have a certain kind of fun -- that's a very fitting generational struggle -- but I also see it as a fierce independence that makes her wary of what she would need to give of herself in order to commit to Aaron, and what social pastimes she would be asked to abandon in order to quote-unquote settle down.
Police were quick to conduct mass arrests, many of which were carried out with brutal abandon, in order to clear the streets of protesters.
Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" did not have to be abandoned in order to tackle immigration.
Its development, under the codename "Longhorn", was troubled, with ambitious elements abandoned in order to get it into production.
Christopher Howell was a shadowy man who never had time for his family, which he abandoned in order to continue his artful yet puzzlingly unproductive career.
In fact, Lawrence was talking about another novel (seven years later to become "The Lost Girl"), which he abandoned in order to write something more salably conventional in style and morality.
When U.S. fighters such as the P-51 Mustang began to operate deep inside Germany with the aid of external fuel tanks in early 1944, the Bf 109's underwing armament was abandoned in order to retain the performance essential for survival in air-to-air combat.
