Do You Really Believe the Grass is Greener on the Other Side?

Are you in a rut, and believe that the grass is really greener on the other side? 

Just when you think you're done with your relationship and you must walk over hills and mountains to find your destined love, irony smacks you in the face! 

I was in my car the other day looking for the right radio station to continue the good mood I was in and came across a song that I have loved singing to since I was a little girl. Never before had I tuned into the lyrics, other than the hook: "Do yo like pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain?" After the song finished, I laughed my ass off! 

So this one guy felt he was in a rut and responded to a want ad believing that the grass was greener on the other side. After arranging to meet up with the woman behind the ad, he discovers "the lady" was his actual lady seeking greener pasture as well. Now, isn't that something?!

Case in point: Take a moment to truly get to know your partner when you feel you are in a rut or tempted to walk across mountains and hills and sweat like a hog in the process. You may be pleasantly surprised to find that what you have been looking for was sitting there all along--you just didn't take the time to discover it.

Enjoy the lyrics and enlighten yourself with the notion that there is always something more we can discover about our lover. Take the time to share a pina colada and save one for me!

"I was tired of my lady

We'd been together too long

Like a worn-out recording

Of a favorite song

So while she lay there sleepin

I read the paper in bed

And in the personal columns

There was this letter I read:

If you like pina coladas

And getting caught in the rain

If you're not into yoga

If you have half a brain

If you like making love at midnight

In the dunes on the cape

Then I'm the love that you've looked for

Write to me and escape

I didn't think about my lady

I know that sounds kinda mean

But me and my old lady

Had fallen into the same old dull routine

So I wrote to the paper

Took out a personal ad

And though I'm nobody's poet

I thought it wasn't half bad

Yes I like pina coladas

And getting caught in the rain

I'm not much into health food

I am into champagne

I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon

And cut through all this red tape

At a bar called O'Malleys

Where we'll plan our escape

So I waited with high hopes

And she walked in the place

I knew her smile in an instant

I knew the curve of her face

It was my own lovely lady

And she said, oh it's you

Then we laughed for a moment

And I said, I never knew

That you liked pina coladas

And getting caught in the rain

And the feel of the ocean

And the taste of the champagne

If you like making love at midnight

In the dunes on the cape

You're the lady I've looked for

Come with me and escape

If you like pina coladas

And getting caught in the rain

If you're not into yoga

If you have half a brain

If you like making love at midnight

In the dunes on the summer cape

Then I'm the love that you've looked for

Write to me and escape

Yes I like pina coladas

And getting caught in the rain

I'm not much into health food

I am into champagne

I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon

And cut through all this red tape

At a bar called O'Malleys

Where we'll plan our escape..."

"Pina Coladas" by Jimmy Buffet

Michelle King, Life Coach