Why do clients quit right when progress stalls, not before?

You have gotten good at keeping people in the room. That is not nothing. But the ones who slip away now do it at the same moment, every time: right when the numbers stop moving. You call it a dropout. It is really a quiet decision that this no longer means anything. Life did not get in the way. Life is always in the way. It was in the way in week one, too, when they showed up anyway. What changed is not their calendar. What changed is their certainty. A plateau removes the one thing that made the effort self-evident — visible progress — and leaves them alone with a question you never asked them to answer: why am I still doing this? You cannot fix this with a new set of exercises or a check-in text. You fix it by making the reason speak again, in their own words, in front of people who will hold them to it.