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Iclearwater Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Crosses

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What does "crosses" refer to?

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Among adults, I have never encountered or heard of a cas of sexual masochism in which the individual was not also masochistic in his social relations. Some typical statements:

Everybody treats me like dirt.
I have developed wonderful muscles for crosses.
The purifying value of suffering is highly exaggerated. l know.
I put all my troubles together and I call them "duty,"
I can always understand and get along with a girl who has troubles.

  

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It is related to the idiomatic expression "a cross to bear". "

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It is related to the idiomatic expression "a cross to bear".

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/a-heavy-cross-to-bear

So in this case it means "I am resigned to the fact (I have accepted that) I have a tough and unfortunate life."

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