God sometimes removes relationships, expectations, jobs, etc. from our lives in His pruning process to make us rely totally on Him.  The pruning may hurt, but it is always for our spiritual and personal health. Don’t superglue or duct tape the dead branch of a relationship back onto your healthy, vibrant life.  The children of Israel actually foolishly tried to return to their slavery in Egypt after God had pruned the slavery from them because they were tempted with Egypt’s supposed “luxury”, but Satan was really attempting to trick them back into bondage.  Keep what God has pruned dead!