God day to you my fellow programmers.

I have a little problem when using two different QVector objects. One is declared as
Qt Code: 
  1. QVector<QDSWireObject*> m_wireVector;
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The other one is declared as
Qt Code: 
  1. QVector< QVector<QDSWireObject*> > m_vectorVector;
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And now i have two different functions which is
Qt Code: 
  1. void QDSMainWindow::deleteWire(QDSWireObject *wire)
  2. {
  3.      QVector<QDSWireObject*> objectVector = findObjectVector(wire);
  4.  
  5.      if(!objectVector.isEmpty())
  6.      {
  7.          Q_FOREACH(QDSWireObject* item, objectVector)
  8.          {
  9.              if(item == wire)
  10.              {
  11.                  int index = objectVector.indexOf(wire);
  12.  
  13.                  if(item->getConnectedBefore())
  14.                     objectVector.at(index - 1)->setConnectedAfter(0);
  15.  
  16.                  if(item->getConnectedAfter())
  17.                     objectVector.at(index +1 )->setConnectedBefore(0);
  18.  
  19.                  item->deleteLater();
  20.                  objectVector.remove(objectVector.indexOf(item));
  21.                  qDebug() << objectVector.size();
  22.              }
  23.          }
  24.      }
  25. }
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This function makes a call to this other function that I am using

Qt Code: 
  1. const QVector<QDSWireObject*>& QDSMainWindow::findObjectVector(QDSWireObject *wire)
  2. {
  3.     Q_FOREACH(QVector<QDSWireObject*> item, m_vectorVector)
  4.     {
  5.         if(item.contains(wire))
  6.         {
  7.             int index = m_vectorVector.indexOf(item);
  8.             return m_vectorVector.at(index);
  9.         }
  10.     }
  11.  
  12.     return QVector<QDSWireObject*>();
  13. }
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And now problem here is that the QVector that the findObjectVector() function returns seems to be a copy of the one from the stored in m_vectorVector. Because when i remove an element it gets removed from the vector and the size changes but if I make several calls to the function I can tell that the vector size of the vector stored in m_vectorVector is not changing. Which I don't really understand why because I am returning a reference to the object.

Hopefully someone can help me out here and see what my problem is.