to oppose; to face; to stand up to (someone)

personal determination, resolution

resolve, decide, come down (on a course of action)

harden / strengthen / fortify / settle down in life

difficult, trying, hard

difficulties, hardship, trouble

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

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

To stamp (flat/hard), to tread.