fortitude; perseverance; stoicism; patience

to keep up; to retain / to maintain

situation (position vis-à-vis surroundings) of something that changes

difficult, trying, hard

difficulties, hardship, trouble

patience, perseverance, endurance

to endure, to bear; to persevere

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend