The phrase "troubled relationships" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe relationships that are experiencing difficulties or conflicts.
Example: "The couple sought counseling to address their troubled relationships and improve their communication."
Alternatives: "difficult relationships" or "strained relationships."
Elaine and her two closest friends, Agatha and Rachel, all had troubled relationships with their mothers.
And so I, um, continually went through these cycles of self-destruction.' She's had troubled relationships with men.
Their statement continued: "But tragically Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle.
His private life, an unsteady rake's progress, involving drink, drugs, divorce, and troubled relationships with women several decades younger than him, is worthy of Picasso or Dali.
Both men have troubled relationships with the women in their life, and offered hints of a past that will presumably be revealed with strip-tease gradualness.
"But tragically, Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle.
But tragically Amy seemed to fall apart under the relentless media attention, her troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle".
She began her Broadway career in 1969 in the musical "Hair" and won a Tony Award in 1970 for best supporting actress in the musical "Purlie," but she encountered financial and legal problems and had troubled relationships with men.
With few exceptions, these women had troubled relationships with their strong mothers, an irresistible tendency to fall for the wrong men and an aversion to motherhood, seeing it as a stumbling block to their own creative lives.
The thrillers Mr. Hanson made as a director for hire before "L. A. Confidential" were also filled with doppelgangers, illusion versus reality games and troubled relationships and marriages -- all the stuff of identity-crisis comedy and drama.
Meanwhile, Lora endures troubled relationships with a playwright (Dan O'Herlihy), an adman (John Gavin), and her daughter (Sandra Dee Annieie's light-skinned teen-age daughter, Sarah Jane Susan Kohnerr), is working as a bump-and-grind showgirl and passing as white, even as whites pass as happy and Annie exhausts herself mastering her anger and maintaining her self-control.
