Love

There are many types of love and relationships that are complicated and unbelievable in the book TheTime Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. Niffenegger's book is through the eyes of two main characters Henry and Clare. Henry and Clare are what most romantic's consider "soul mates". They are not the only love that has been shown through out The Time Traveler's Wife. Here are some relationships.


Henry&Clare:

Henry and Clare are the main characters in The Time Traveler's Wife. Henry and Clare meet when Clare is six years old and Henry is forty. Henry is a time traveler and he travels to places in the future and the past of his life that are meaningful to him. He travel's to Clare when she is six years old and they become good friends, Henry becomes her childhood crush, which leads into her boyfriend, fiancé and her husband through out her life. They struggle with his time traveling because sometimes it puts a strain on their relationship as he is leaving and away for weeks at a time sometimes. Clare deals with seeing Henry in different phases of his life. Until she is able to have him in the present where they are both around the same age to be able to date. Clare is the strongest of the two main characters when it comes to love because through out everything, of him leaving and coming back at random times, random ages.. she stands by him and walks through life with him with barley any complaints. She is hopelessly in love with him and you can see that she will love him for eternity. Henry is strong also.. he tries to pull himself from where he traveled back to Clare as fast as possible but with him not being able to control it, thats is not the case. Henry knows how to wow her every time they are together and things are never dull when they get to spend periods of time together. 


Gomez&Charisse:
Gomez and Charisse are Clare's roommates. Clare and Charisse are best friends and live together in 1991. Charisse and Gomez date, and end up getting married although Gomez has a really huge crush on Clare which sometimes gets the best of him Charisse stands by Gomez and does not leave him. She acts as if she does not see the way that Gomez looks at her best friend. Gomez and Charisse have three children tougher and remain married until their death. 


Sharon&Mark:
Mark is Clare's older brother. He is dating Sharon his girlfriend whom he has been with for two years. Sharon had become pregnant and Mark had asked her to marry him due to pure pressure of their Christian faith,Which did not impress his parents. They did not approve of the engagement due to the fact that Sharon was pregnant. 


Philip&Lucille Abshire: 

Philip and Lucille are Clare's parents. They were married very young and have three children together. Mark, Clare and Alicia. They are not in love nor do they even show it. Lucille suffers from depression and anxiety which gets the best of her and has for as long as Clare could remember. You can tell that they are only still remaining married due to their Christian faith. They got married young because Lucille had become pregnant at a young age and it became a repeat in the family with Mark and Sharon and Lucille and Philip did not like that. 


There are many other love relationships in the book but not many of them are as focused as these relationships here. one of the main theme's in The Time Traveler's Wife  is love and it is shown differently in all of the relationships. Love concurs all and it is also shown differently in al of the relationships. You live through the love and the sacrifice of Henry and Clare and see the people around them that they care about struggle on different level's of love with one another.