cross (somebody has) to carry

A difficult responsibility or burden that someone must handle on his or her own. I really don't want to take out student loans, but it's the cross I have to carry in order to further my education.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Charity	CHER-i-tee, CHAR-i-tee	English
Shields	['ʃi:ldz]
Laura	LAWR-ə (English), LOW-rah (Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch), LAW-oo-raw (Hungarian)	English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Croa
Cartwright	['ka:t.rait]
Hailey	HAY-lee	English (Modern)
Keeva	KEE-va	Irish