10 Things I Learned About Love from ‘Outlander’

#9: Love is love is love and you have little choice in the matter.

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Be it an age difference, or a sexuality preference different from others, YOU do YOU, Boo.

Later in the series we meet a character named Lord John Grey. Book readers will know Lord John well. In fact, he has his own spinoff series of books that are just as great as the “big books” (as Diana calls them). Lord John is gay, and a wonderful, charismatic, kind, brilliant, friendly person. He is one of my favorite characters and he offers a depth and thread to the story that is absolutely necessary. Outlander has always done a great job at allowing life lessons to express themselves through the characters, whether it’s in the 20th century or the 18th. That includes tolerance.

I won’t pretend that it’s all rainbows and sunshine throughout the story. In fact there are several unthinkably dark scenes that make you question humanity. But, one thing that Diana and these characters have always portrayed, almost to a fault, is that love is not a choice. It is something that happens to you. Love who makes you happy. Love the one that makes you love yourself.