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>They're not thinking clearly, it's not someone leaving it's someone having a panic attack and wanting to run away
I feel like this concept is sufficiently abstracted by mental breaks like psychotic breaks and hiding in their own room. There's no reason not to take the event letter at full face value when it says "X has given up and decided to leave".

They made an informed decision and you just don't like it. You could beat/cajole them into submission and even eventually address/fix every single one of the concerns that drove them to give up on your colony in the first place - ultimately, it still doesn't change the cold hard fact that you allowed it to happen. You failed them.