And even more difficult if you go looking for solutions in the wrong directions.
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But the couple generally talks daily, and occasional visits help sustain them, even if parting is difficult, says Lorenz.
Addiction is a disease that is relatively well understood, even if it is still difficult to treat.
Bananas would be a much cheaper alternative, even if it might be difficult to get a precise dose of the active compounds.
Mr Tadic's strategy of engaging the EU is evidently the better one for his people, even if it is a difficult one to promote at the moment.
"Whiplash injury claims continue to pour in and under current legislation, they are difficult for insurers to reject, even if they think they may be fraudulent, because it is difficult to prove whether or not a claimant has suffered, " said Mr Douglas.
Even if handled well, the difficult business of debt reduction will hold back the rich world's economies for several more years.
What is clear there is that, given the political and bureaucratic will, a solution is possible, even if it is costly and difficult.
Others believe that by trying to focus on the services which matter most to voters and by being prepared to think outside the box, it might be possible to maintain good services even if this could mean a difficult period of change for some staff.
But she says it's worth finding those who can handle the freedom, even if it makes her job more difficult.
Criminality has already taken on a life of its own which would be difficult to control even if Chavez were no longer president.
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It's even more difficult to figure out if your clothes are made in safe factories if you're buying from retailers that don't specifically market their clothes as ethically made.
Afghanistan is larger than California and Florida combined, making policing difficult, and even if the West attempted to buy up the entire crop, some farmers in the vast countryside would illicitly produce opium at now-premium prices and require the paid protection of the Taliban or Taliban-like forces.
All this suggests that the consequences of skilled emigration are difficult to calculate, even if they are not negligible.
But researchers doubted whether the syndrome really existed and argued that even if it did, it would be difficult to prove that the drug worked.
There is no ban on gun ownership in Chicago or Illinois and even if there were, it is hardly difficult to go too far to get guns in places where they are freely available.
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It's 1, 500-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, so I think it's true it is certainly going to be very difficult to seal, even if Pakistan sinks a tremendous amount of money and resources into this.
That said, even if the fingerprint age problems becomes too difficult to tackle in the near future, this technique seems to hold promise on its own as a detection technique that can be employed fairly quickly.
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Who is on the fix or even if there is a fix occurring is very difficult to tell.
Concorde's commercial life is clearly drawing to a close: even if flights eventually resume, it will be difficult to rebuild lost confidence among passengers.
But even if EPDs become ubiquitous, comparisons may remain difficult.
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Even if that were the case, it could be difficult for the firm to persuade consumers to buy an iWatch.
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It was beginning to sound as if a live Uncle Enos would be even more difficult to get along with than a whole houseful of ghosts, even regular ghosts of the misty-sheet variety.
But it is difficult, if not impossible, for even the tightest of squads to protect a player from the taunts of tens of thousands of fans.
Collins said that even if there is a lawsuit, plaintiffs might find it difficult to get their expert opinion into evidence, since the science isn't clear.
But trying to pin down national identity is always a difficult and dangerous occupation - even more so if your chosen medium involves marshalling 1, 000 people, nine geese and 70 sheep on a sports field.
Chile's experience suggests that even if they were desirable in theory, capital controls may be difficult to enforce in practice.
Even if you were inclined to do so, it is exceptionally difficult to get an accurate hold on which Twitter accounts are actually fake.
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Migrants from the countryside usually find it difficult to get hold of such certificates, even if they have lived in a city for many years.
"Even if this is a challenging economic time, it's difficult to understand the agency's decision to turn its back completely on the requirements of the Language Act, " she said.
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