Very likely they are planning to leave. There’s a small chance that they have some family issues or burnout though. You will want to have a conversation about the latter. When people zone out, it usually is the former though, in my experience.

The central claim: “Our findings show that religion-state integration emboldens Buddhist vigilantes to attack religious minorities.”

Which can’t be a surprise to anyone, especially to Tamils who have witnessed the pogroms in Sri Lanka the last half century.