She will still come up in some conversations even if you break up but only with characters that knew her from before Emma left for school.Broke up with girlfriend. The way she is never mentioned again is weird. Felt kinda bad and restarted. On my second run I was failing all the hero missions. I have no idea what I even did different, I always succeeded on the first run.
Did you pick a different starting route for what you did over the summer? If you made different choices during your next run you would get different increases.