From the moment that Yaakov leaves Be'er-Sheva, the Torah tells us nothing more about Yitzchak and Rivka – not even a single word.
This is the deeper meaning of the midrash (Bereishit Rabba 68:7, cited by Rashi): "When a righteous man is in a city, he is its splendor, he is its glory; when he leaves, its splendor leaves, its glory leaves." This is also the answer to the well-known question: Why did the “splendor” and “glory” leave the city if Yitzchak and Rivka were still in the city? All this hangs on the explicit fact that God left the city together with Yaakov.
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