What is your "cross to bear"?

My cross to bear is inheriting my dads 40 lb. weight struggles. lol
If I don’t pay close attention I’ll put on the lbs. easily. I HATE having to watch every bite of food I put in my mouth, a curse it is, although nothing tastes as good as thin feels, yeah, I just keep telling myself that haha

My crazy, selfish ex wife.

Everyone tells me I am too nice to her and let myself get screwed, but the fact is, she has my children, and until they are all in college, I want her to be doing well.

My digestion. I can’t eat most of the stuff I love, it’s hard to eat enough to stay healthy, I hurt a lot sometimes, and it interferes with my sex life. I must have pissed off my endosymbionts at some point, because they are really not holding up their end of the bargain.

My tendency to romanticize and fantasize. It gets in the way of me seeing relationships and people clearly and makes me expect too much of them.

I’m not exactly sure what the saying means.

That someone this big can be this devilishly handsome.
It’s a curse, really.

That, and the siren song of one Mrs. Fields

@cprevite You are a cutie! (And I just baked chocolate pie…)

My youngest son keeps picking friends/wives who are very predatory. Instead of a partner, he ends up with women who are argumentative, greedy and high maintenance.

I do remember the old pun, “Gladly the cross I’d bear,” taken from an old hymn,

Gladly the cross-eyed bear eats, shoots and leaves.

You mean: Gladly, the cross-eyed bear, eats, shoots and leaves while dropping the Oxford comma on the path.

Deed I do.

@janbb: Aww, thank you. I’ll take a sliver.

I dunno. A low tolerance for intolerance on the part of others?

Can anyone explain this saying?

@Blackberry @eiram

I believe it comes from Christianity – Jesus had to carry his own cross to his crucifixion.

Having a cross to bear means having a burden that you cannot get rid of.

@harple That makes a lot of sense!
I don’t know how, but I thought it had something to do with the animal, a bear. Like when we became animale-like. lol.

I don’t just have one :(

My head injured sister is a pretty big cross to bear as are too many of the in-laws and extended family.

@tups: Your “cross to bear”, aside from being a reference to the crucifixtion of Jesus, speaks of your major obstacles or challenges in life. They are often difficult or impossible to overcome. It’s something that dogs you.

My childhood in hell. And a body that self-destructs.

Everything I, and others, do or say haunt me. It’s hard for me to forgive any wrong (including my own) because I find it extremely hard to forget them. So from that, I developed a peculiar desire for both company and isolation; to be cared for and to be resented, hated; to be able to grow to love myself and to continue hating myself. And from that grew my… mutually destructive tendencies.