Is there a more difficult relationship than a long marriage?

Which isn't to say they didn't have a difficult relationship.

The two men thus had an increasingly difficult working relationship.

I had a very difficult relationship with my mother, which took many years to resolve.

That is difficult relationship, not where the hard choices are.

He seems to have had a rather difficult relationship with his mother.

You know that this has been a difficult and complex relationship.

A difficult relationship with the club and its players was born.

"We don't hit much off," he said of his difficult relationship with the Bush administration.

"From everything I have heard, this has been a very difficult relationship."