Even years isn't exactly enough to raise a kid properly, is it? And when you do get home, you won't have aged any. I don't pretend to have understood your relationship, but I understand this even less. And having this kind of relationship with Haruhi is a responsibility, isn't it? Something that should really not be taken lightly, because of everything she is.

[He has no idea why he's getting upset about it himself. But at the bottom of it -- as much as he won't admit it -- is his own vision at home of how he and Haruhi might one day have gone to college together, with her long hair again and that affectionate greeting, and then who knows what? Haruhi isn't someone you can just break up with, for him.]

Just vague things like "it wasn't working out" doesn't seem to really cover it to me. Seems to me like there should be another reason.

['Another person, maybe. Which would be even worse.']