He did seem to see her as an object and unhealthily obsessed over her.
Sabrina Romanoff said when talking about the idea of you'll meet a soulmate “This expectation paves the way for significant disappointment. Instead, replace the idea of ‘finding’ your soulmate, with ‘creating’ one through years of learning about them, navigating challenges, creating a family, and loving each other through all the happy and hard times,”
Which it kind of was Clana.