The phrase "disturbing relationship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a relationship that causes discomfort, anxiety, or concern.
Example: "The disturbing relationship between the two characters added tension to the story."
Alternatives: "troubling relationship" or "unsettling relationship."
Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Julian Morris are almost painfully convincing as Kelly and Victor, whose disturbing relationship brings some kind of escape from lives teetering on the brink.
The disturbing relationship of Bellmer and Zürn is described in a section of the show's catalogue devoted to love among the Surrealists: marriages, adulteries, ménages à trois, daisy-chain affairs.
This troubled girl runs to Young-nam for help; Jang shows how Dohee's vulnerability unlocks Young-nam's own need for love, and the two embark on an ambiguous, disturbing relationship.
Simone de Beauvoir confronted the problem in her extensive study Old Age: "Old age is particularly difficult to assume because we have always regarded it as something alien, a foreign species: 'Can I have become a different being while I still remain myself?'" What is at issue, it seems to me, is a new and disturbing relationship with time.
There's a disturbing relationship between gun prevalence, resistance to gun control, and anti-government rhetoric.
Secret filming inside the Scottish Police academy, and a Freedom of Information request to Police Scotland, has exposed a disturbing relationship between the UK government and Sri Lankan security forces linked to war crimes.
Second, the question of the acceptability or not of homosexual practices is agitating many Western churches and disturbing relationships within their global ecclesiastical families.
Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between longtime friends, and especially mothers and daughters.
While we've spent most of the season examining some pretty messed up mother-daughter relationships (ugh, and some disturbing mother-son relationships as well), tonight we get to see some father influence.
But if there's anything disturbing about the relationship between video games and actual homicide, it's not that the games have become too realistic; it's that killing, particularly the warlike variety, has become far too much like a video game.
He thought it said something disturbing about our relationship and told me that his friends had noticed and suspected the same.
