Unattainable Love: A Heartbreaking Love Song About Falling for a Married Person
Even when you know the other person is married, you can’t help falling for them—and even if you’re married, you might find yourself falling for someone else.
You know in your head that it’s wrong, but you can’t stop it—maybe that’s what it means to be in love.
In this article, we’ve gathered songs that sing about those unspoken feelings and loves that don’t go the way we want.
Why not listen to tracks from people in similar situations and try to sort out your feelings? A song that resonates with your heart might show you the way to end a painful love.
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[Unrequited Love] A Heartbreaking Love Song About Falling for a Married Person (11–20)
I’ve gotten stronger, Blue.aimyon
This is a track from Aimyon’s fourth album, “Falling Into My Eyes Record.” After the album’s release, the music video for this song was unveiled and quickly became a hot topic.
Fans have reacted with comments like “It’s addictive” and “The indirectly expressed lyrics are outstanding.” Even knowing you’ll never end up together, you still can’t walk away on your own—the feeling of love with nowhere to go.
Haven’t you ever put on a brave face to cover up such feelings? It’s a song that quietly pierces the heart with the pain of unrequited love.
Unraveling Loveyama
A song that tightens your chest with yama’s faint, heartrending vocals.
It portrays the complexity of love and the pain that can’t be avoided, delicately depicting two people who hurt each other yet remain in love.
Though they truly want to be together, they can’t say it honestly—an acknowledgment that they’re hurting someone and that they shouldn’t continue the relationship any further.
It makes you deeply ponder whether happiness awaits a love that comes together after wounding many, and the slow, piercing ache of unfulfilled love lingers in your heart.
This is a track I especially recommend to anyone struggling with an awkward, clumsy love.
Your happinessUru
A song by Uru that sings of a heartbreaking love you can’t stop even though you know it won’t come true.
From the intro, the melody draws you in, and every single word of the lyrics pierces the heart.
You can feel the frustration of wishing for the other person’s happiness while being unable to suppress your own feelings.
Released in November 2023, this track, paired with Uru’s delicate vocals, tightens the listener’s chest.
It’s a song that gently stays by the side of anyone troubled by unrequited love or a romance they just can’t give up.
I didn’t want to know, if it meant losing it.atarayo
A song where aching sadness and faint hope intersect.
Carried by Atarayo’s vocals, it gently portrays the feelings of those tormented by unrequited love.
Even after learning the truth of a lie, the growing fear of losing the one you love is striking.
Released in January 2022 as an advance single from the album “In the Polar Night, the Moon Remains Silent,” this piece was born from a collaboration with the “Junwaidan” project, drawing on an episode selected from over 10,000 submissions.
It’s a song that stands beside anyone who wants to look forward while carrying the pain of heartbreak—recommended for moments when you want to face the complex emotions deep within your heart.
hydrangeakyanai
A song woven by Kyannai, filled with poignancy and pain.
Released in May 2022, this work delves deeply into the mindset of the one who cheats.
While depicting what appears to be a close couple, it captivates with a dramatic development that reveals a hidden tangle of romantic entanglements.
The lyrics skillfully intertwine the transience of love and the complexity of human relationships with the hydrangea’s flower language, “infidelity,” drawing you in before you know it.
It’s a track that gently stays by the side of those who harbor a secret love they can’t tell anyone, or who struggle with the complexities of romance.
A love I can tell no one abouterica
Singer-songwriter Erica wrote the lyrics to “Dare ni mo Ienu Koi” (“A Love I Can’t Tell Anyone About”) based on unrequited-love consultations sent to her blog by fans.
Comments like “I’m in love with my teacher” and “I fell for a married person— I know it’s wrong, but I can’t stop” have been posted on the music video, earning strong support from many fans.
As long as people who carry these aching feelings share their pain with others in the same situation, no one besides themselves gets hurt.
But depending on what happens next, there’s a chance someone’s happiness could be taken away—that’s the painful reality of a forbidden love.
[Unrequited Love] A Heartbreaking Love Song About Falling for a Married Person (21–30)
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This is a song by back number that portrays the inner conflict of a woman who, even while realizing she’s being treated as someone to fill a void in the other person’s heart, desperately tries to be liked by him.
The frustration she feels toward herself for accepting a man who shows he’s married right up to the very last moment, and for trying to play the role of the woman he prefers, might be a common emotion among women involved in affairs.
This is what it means to be in a relationship where no one can be happy.
You can’t control the feeling of falling in love, but don’t you think a forbidden love is something that shouldn’t be started in the first place?