“Lesson from ‘Outlander’: Why Resolving Disputes Before Bed is Essential, Illustrated by Jamie and Claire’s Intimate Dining Room Encounter”

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Most importantly, though, Starz‘s Outlander is a show about how great it is when James Fraser (Sam Heughan) and wife Claire (Caitriona Balfe) get to bang. Jamie and Claire’s passion is the magic that fuels all of Outlander. It’s what brings the two back together, across centuries, oceans, and multiple near-death scrapes.

**Spoilers for Outlander Season 7 Episode 12 “Carnal Knowledge,” now streaming on Starz**

So it was delightful to see the two handle their bittersweet reunion this week with honest words and a hot and heavy dining room table romp. Jamie and Claire’s sex scene in Outlander Season 7 Episode 12 “Carnal Knowledge” made the point that couples should never go to bed angry. They should simply put their anger on hold and go “to bed.”

Outlander fans are likely still reeling by the intense storylines of the past few weeks. Almost as soon as Outlander Season 7 Part 2 started, we were told that Jamie’s ship had been lost at sea and there were zero survivors. A despondent Claire found herself rushed into a marriage of convenience with Lord John Grey (David Berry). Lord John, of course, has been madly in love with Jamie for years and was equally devastated by the news.

One drunken night, Lord John goes to his new bride’s chamber so they can mourn “together.” The two have one night of intense, cathartic passion that Lord John later describes to Jamie as both of them “fucking” the believed dead Scot.

Naturally, Jamie is not happy about this. He almost beats Lord John Grey to death and leaves him in the custody of some local Rebels itching to hang a Brit. And while he’s also displeased with Claire, the argument they have about the matter is less about rage and more about jealousy. The connection that Jamie and Claire have is so strong that despite her infidelity, all Jamie wants is her. He tenderly asks her if she’s still his wife! She replies of course she is. Then, Jamie does what he does best: he takes action.

Jamie and Claire begin to kiss and soon he is pulling her into Lord John Grey’s abandoned dining room. When Claire balks at the idea of doing it on his grand dining room table, Jamie reiterates they are alone in the house. They are soon in each other’s arms, making urgent, intense love on the table.

There was something so sexy about seeing two grown adults acknowledge their feelings have been hurt, but that they still love and want each other. After all, Claire is just happy that Jamie is alive. Jamie, on the other hand, simply wants to be reunited with the woman he so desperately loves. As he says, they’ll talk more about what went down later, but why refuse the obvious? That Jamie and Claire belong to each other and they belong in each other’s arms.

Of course, while Jamie and Claire are humping like teens in love on Lord John Grey’s table, poor Lord John is attempting to escape the Rebel camp determined to kill him. It’s actually funny how the show edits these two tonally different moments so that it almost looks like Claire and Jamie’s orgasmic grunts of ecstasy are what wake the Rebel guards up. But that’s the power of Jamie and Claire, after all. They are two lovers so profoundly in love, their sex can be heard miles away and hundreds of years in the future.