How can someone be in love , yet have to be so far away from their loved one all the time?This is what the main character, Henry has had to cope with since he was a young child. The protagonist, Henry, was diagnosed with a disorder that takes him to the past and future. His time traveling is an unpredictable disorder. His life is a mix of old, new, and future events. A minute he can be in the present, and a minute later he can be disappearing to the past, arriving naked to it. While Henry time travels, his wife Clare, is in the present living her life without Henry. Throughout the chapters, Henry’s disorder takes him to when his wife was 6 years old. Of course six year old Clare has no idea the nude man is her future husband, however Henry manages to not scare her first of all, and begins to explain that he’s a time traveler even though Clare seemed hesitant. They become friends and before Henry disappears back to the present, he writes the date(September 29,1977) he will be back and hands it over to Clare, so she can have clothes ready for him as soon as he arrives. The next chapters are similar except Henry encounters different situations and sees Clare grow from a child to a teenager until they meet in the present. The Time Traveler’s Wife explores the topic of love and how people in love overcome difficult obstacles like in this story how the wife and the husband both have to manage their relationship and keep their love strong even if they are not together much.