n. 25B6; noun
the difficulty of balancing motherhood with a career : STRAIN, trouble, problems, toil, struggle, laboriousness, arduousness; informal hassle, stress.
practical difficulties : PROBLEM, complication, snag, hitch, pitfall, handicap, impediment, hindrance, obstacle, hurdle, obstruction, barrier, stumbling block, fly in the ointment; Brit. spanner in the works; informal headache, hiccup.
Charles got into difficulties : TROUBLE, predicament, plight, hard times, dire straits; quandary, dilemma; informal deep water, a fix, a jam, a spot, a scrape, a stew, a hole, a pickle.
ease.