(If you mean Sarah Jane Smith, she got dropped off because he couldn't bring humans to Gallifrey and concluded he'd died or gotten distracted when he didn't show up for about thirty years.)
Ian and Barbara went home, but I really got more of an impression that they wanted to stop getting shot at by Daleks, not that they'd decided that the Doctor was... emotionally bad for their personal growth.
I'm specifically discounting people who found a calling (or a love interest) *through* the Doctor; I'm looking at those who had something without him that was good and important enough to go back to, even once they'd met him. People who were.... hrm. Fundamentally adults in the first place, I guess.
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(If you mean Sarah Jane Smith, she got dropped off because he couldn't bring humans to Gallifrey and concluded he'd died or gotten distracted when he didn't show up for about thirty years.)
Ian and Barbara went home, but I really got more of an impression that they wanted to stop getting shot at by Daleks, not that they'd decided that the Doctor was... emotionally bad for their personal growth.
I'm specifically discounting people who found a calling (or a love interest) *through* the Doctor; I'm looking at those who had something without him that was good and important enough to go back to, even once they'd met him. People who were.... hrm. Fundamentally adults in the first place, I guess.