"difficulties in life" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about the general hardships one may face in life, or in a more specific context. For example: "We all come across difficulties in life, but it's how we overcome them that defines us."
"I've had a lot of difficulties in life," Ms. Bloom said.
As a result, tomorrow's adults will be self-centered, spoiled and unable to handle any difficulties in life.
Research tells us they are also more likely to face difficulties in life including unemployment, mental health problems, homelessness or spending time in prison.
That is, teen childbearing is explained by the low economic trajectory but is not an additional cause of later difficulties in life.
Because it's not a question of whether you will encounter difficulties in life; it's really a question of how you confront them.
"Poll Says Even Quiet Divorces Affect Children's Paths" (news article, Nov. 5) suggests that children whose parents divorce have more difficulties in life than children whose parents remain married.
It just feels like a major difficulty in life".
Every difficulty in life will make you stronger, especially when you have a strong character.
A great source of difficulty in life is that actions we believe to be novel are often repetitions of what has already happened.
I think that really why I got into it in the first place was because I feel at home with people who've had difficulty in life because I have too.
I generated this very simplistic comparative construct in an effort to explain how this one "limiting" diagnostic parameter can conferring high-functioning autistics such difficulty in life (e.g. professional and academic and any interpersonal relations).
