DILEMMA

[noun] [C] - a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two possibilities, both of which are often unpleasantThe President is clearly in a dilemma over how to tackle the crisis.Two of my friends are having parties on the same day, and I'm in a real dilemma about which to go to.The poor girl is caught in/facing the dilemma of obeying her father or marrying the man she loves.He is faced/confronted with the moral/ethical dilemma of whether to steal a drug he can't afford so that he can save his wife's life.The Court will have to resolve the agonizing dilemma of whether parents can refuse medical treatment for their children on religious grounds.