'estranged relationship' is correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is typically used to describe a relationship that has gone wrong. For example: "The once close relationship between the two sisters had become an estranged relationship as a result of their constant bickering."
Snapshots of nature were an escape from an estranged relationship with her parents, one defined by constant arguing.
But set against that what we also saw again on Saturday – the unedifying spectacle of two parties to an estranged relationship giving their sides.
The only positive remarks about the United States in the speech by Mr. Moallem were in his endorsement of efforts made to improve the estranged relationship with Iran, the Syrian government's only regional ally.
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of his death and, despite the Iranian government's estranged relationship with the United States, Baskerville is still revered and honored as a symbol of American ideals and principles.
In another scene, Burke talks to his daughter about the estranged relationship with his ex-wife.
It was an estranged relationship," Tony Lindsey, a friend of Brinsley's mother, told WABC.
And details of his personal life — the daughter in Atlanta from whom he was estranged, his relationship with the family who raised him, where he went when Starbucks was closed — those were secrets he kept to himself.
Their relationship, estranged in those later years, remains a mystery during his childhood and adolescence.
The countries' long-estranged relationship dates from the Korean War 60 years ago.
In a traveling exhibition of political performance art, Mr. Clinton also began rebuilding America's long-estranged relationship with India, the world's most populous democracy.
Their relationship was estranged, and the son drifted into the fundamentalist branch of Islam known as Wahhabism, which has made inroads into Chechnya from Saudi Arabia.
