Being pushed into a lone-wolf position is a super interesting point and I hadn’t considered it. Thank you for sharing it. I know I’ve had players who have complained of this happening — it was the source of a big blowup at the end of the year, even — but neither they nor I can really tell where the outside push-away starts and their own withdrawal ends. Totally not suggesting this is imagined behavior! I just don’t know how to diagnose it if it’s something I’d want to fix.

In our specific case, we just took a month off, debriefed a couple times, started playing again.