'difficult love' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which either loving someone or being in a relationship with someone is difficult. For example, "Their relationship was a difficult love, fraught with miscommunication and heartache."
He is also in the middle of the clearest hints of narrative: difficult love, jealousy.
He even reminded her of a difficult love affair in order to evoke more suffering.
The songs were of nostalgia and difficult love, the two great common denominators of Argentine music.
A slender waist; luxuriant hair; a difficult love; a long life; children dragged by the hand across seas and continents.
"A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me," by David Gates, is brutal, viciously intelligent, and full of reckless, difficult love for its characters.
"My son is always leaving," she writes, and by the end of "The Warrior," one understands the fear, pride and difficult love contained within that simple sentence.
POETS have long used imagined rural worlds as refuges from, and symbols for, our own: simplified, purposely unrealistic shepherds, gardeners and fishermen let writers from Theocritus to Milton weave pastorals whose forests, fields and brooks encode claims about politics, religion, dead friends, living rivals or difficult loves.
So, I made a trip to the beach, so to speak, and there I found a surfer taking a break and reading Italo Calvino's Difficult Loves..
"They're not popular, because it's very difficult to love nature, to love animals".
Again, as Hunter says, "It is difficult to love people, even when you do love them, it is difficult to know how - how to express it.
Even though it's 2018, that doesn't change the fact that it's still really difficult to love yourself and to be open about who you love and what you love and why you feel a certain way.
