The second curse was for Eve.  Gen. 3:16  "To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;  in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you."  

I get it.  I've had five children.  They're a joy after the fact, but getting them here is a bummer. 

I also get it about the husband ruling over the wife.  They're bigger.  They're stronger.  God got to choose who was the biggest and the strongest.  It wasn't Eve.  

The third curse was for Adam.  Gen. 3:l7-19  And to Adam he said, Because you have harkened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, you shall not eat of it:  Cursed is the ground for your sake;  in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days to your life;  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat of the herb of the field;  In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you aren, and to dust shall you return."

Basically, what God was telling Adam was that feeding those children that Eve was going to have, was going to be awful.  He would have sweat pouring down his face and the ground wasn't going to cooperate.   Up to this point, God had provided their food.  Now he was going to eat bread.  That meant that he was going to have to dig, and plant, and harvest.  No more laying around picking dinner off a tree.  Work had just been invented. 

Things are going from bad to worse; and God isn't done with them yet.  What a pity.