50 Best Sad Songs About the Other Woman
Songs That Hit When You’re Not the Only One
There’s a specific sting that hits when you realize you weren’t the first pick. Or the only one. It’s not heartbreak in the big dramatic sense, but something quieter, murkier. A kind of hollow knowing that eats at the edges. These songs don’t fix anything. They just sit in it. That backseat feeling, the silent comparisons, the ache of playing it cool when you know you’re not the one being lied toyou’re the one caught in the middle of it. And somehow the track playing in your headphones makes it worse, but also kind of helps.
There’s something brutal in the way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs have handled this mess over the years. Some of them scream. Others barely whisper. Some sound like confessions that should’ve stayed buried in a text that never got sent. Others sound like a dare, like they wanted to be found out. There's the righteous anger of someone who walked in on too much, and the tired resignation of someone who knew but didn’t leave. No matter how it plays out, the best ones never sugarcoat it. They give the situation no clean edges, no easy story to tell your friends.
Sometimes the other woman is a stranger. Sometimes it’s someone you know too well. And sometimes it’s you, stuck holding the weight of someone else’s choices and pretending it doesn’t wreck everything. These tracks hold all of it like a bruise you poke to remind yourself it’s still there. Here are the most unforgettable sad songs when someone else is in the picture.
Top 10 Other Woman Songs
1. 'Saving All My Love for You'—Whitney Houston
2. 'Me and Mrs. Jones'—Billy Paul
3. 'Stay'—Sugarland
4. 'Illicit Affairs'—Taylor Swift
5. 'Secret Lovers'—Atlantic Starr
6. 'As We Lay'—Kelly Price
7. 'The Other Woman'—Ray Parker Jr.
8. 'She Don't Have to Know'—John Legend
9. 'Careless Whisper'—George Michael
10. 'Unfaithful'—Rihanna
Sad Songs About Affairs #11—20
11. 'Don't Bother'—Shakira
12. 'My Little Secret'—Xscape
13. 'Lips of an Angel'—Hinder
14. 'Confessions Part II'—Usher
15. 'If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right'—Luther Ingram
16. 'The Other Woman'—Loretta Lynn
17. 'Daytime Friends'—Kenny Rogers
18. 'I'm In Love With A Married Man'—Mark Chesnutt
19. 'Secret Love Song'—Little Mix
20. 'I Can't Make You Love Me'—Bonnie Raitt
Songs About Forbidden Love #21—30
21. 'You Know I'm No Good'—Amy Winehouse
22. 'Little Lies'—Fleetwood Mac
23. 'Lyin' Eyes'—The Eagles
24. 'Cry Me a River'—Justin Timberlake
25. 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'—Marvin Gaye
26. 'You Oughta Know'—Alanis Morissette
27. 'Jolene'—Dolly Parton
28. 'Creep'—TLC
29. 'Before He Cheats'—Carrie Underwood
30. 'Somebody Else'—The 1975
Top Songs About Hidden Relationships #31—40
31. 'I'm Not the Only One'—Sam Smith
32. 'It Wasn't Me'—Shaggy
33. 'I Honestly Love You'—Olivia Newton-John
34. 'I Know Places'—Taylor Swift
35. 'Dirty Little Secret'—The All-American Rejects
36. 'Disclosure'—Magnets feat. Lorde
37. 'A Thing Goin' On'—Coolio
38. 'Part Time Lover'—Stevie Wonder
39. 'Thinking of You'—Katy Perry
40. 'Back To December'—Taylor Swift
Songs About Being Second Choice #41—50
41. 'Second Choice'—Kree Harrison
42. 'Maps'—Yeah Yeah Yeahs
43. 'Someone Like You'—Adele
44. 'The Only Exception'—Paramore
45. 'Girl Crush'—Little Big Town
46. 'You Belong With Me'—Taylor Swift
47. 'When You're Gone'—Avril Lavigne
48. 'The Scientist'—Coldplay
49. 'Hurt'—Christina Aguilera
50. 'Goodbye My Lover'—James Blunt
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