The phrase "flawed marriage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it anytime you want to refer to a marriage that is troubled or imperfect in some way. For example, you could write, "The couple had a flawed marriage that was ultimately doomed to fail."
It's a good concept, but now I think it's a very fundamentally flawed marriage.
Unsolicited visits from her landlord and his estranged wife, however, invite troubling conversations and memories of her flawed marriage and fraught relationship with her grown daughter, Aurelia, a perennially recovering addict.
By working from a memoir of his flawed marriage written by his ex-wife, Jane Hawking (the second and more temperate of the two books she has written), screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director James Marsh have swerved a lot, if not quite all, of the cliches about all-too-human scientist-geniuses and they have created a startlingly grown-up portrait of a difficult, troubled relationship.
Skipping over the awkward moments in a very public, and at times visibly flawed, marriage, Clinton instead said: "I married my best friend," recalling two failed proposal attempts and then describing when Clinton's water broke during her pregnancy with Chelsea – undoubtedly a first in a speech about a US presidential candidate.
The pope's announcement sent a clear message that the church is sympathetic to those with flawed marriages, he said.
In her soliloquy she contemplates Bloom's flawed character, their unhappy marriage, her lovers, men's frailty and women's vulnerability.
Is marriage essentially flawed, or am I? The word contract is used to describe both marriage and business, with one big difference; we go into marriage with a naïve, "YES!
Batuman reads Flynn's story as dark cultural commentary on the deeply flawed institution of heterosexual marriage, one that casts wives as "people who disappear," and creates expectations that hurt both the men and women who cannot live up to them.
Second, we can raise awareness about the flawed arguments being used to defend marriage bans on same-sex marriage in the courts, positions that are increasingly out of synch with public opinion.
However, Sheikh Abdullah al-Marie, a senior Saudi cleric, has publicly denounced Yerima's clearly flawed argument, stating that, "Aisha's marriage cannot be equated with child marriages today because the conditions and circumstances are not the same".
Marriage struck me as flawed institution at the best of times.
