Yes, but no. TTW had ten times Twilight's quality of narrative, and the title of the book is part of the point; yes, it's amazingly fucked up and the 'romance' of the situation is debateable, but the point is that Claire IS rendered powerless by this situation, not because she's a woman ( or even because she was the woman of the relationship ) but because she's not the time traveler. If their roles had been swapped, I firmly believe the book would be called "The Time-Traveler's Husband". To me, at least, the book shouldn't be valued for its romance (mostly because it's just taken as such a given and not properly developed, IMO) but as a recount of Claire's tragedy it's poignant and striking.

So, I get what you're saying, but you're still wrong. <3