Top 10 Sad Love Songs to Listen to After a Breakup

When you break up with someone, it's wise to listen to sad love songs. Sad love songs have this ability to bring out a catharsis when you are feeling pain. Here's my top ten sad love songs to listen to after a breakup.

Six Catharsis Tunes for Gutting Out The Pain

When you are in pain over a breakup, crying it out helps get out the feelings you have over the hurt. Keeping it in doesn't do you any good at all. As you cry and cry and cry it out, the pain lessons, and you can move on with your romantic life afterwards. The following six sad love songs will definitely suck that pain out of you via quantitative crying. The titles alone are the sharp edges suited to begin the cathartic process...

Hard Habit To Break, by Chicago, originally from the 1984 album Chicago 17

With lyrics talking about years going by without being able to get over someone and being addicted to a former lover in the midst of a desperate-sounding jazz-rock fusion, your pain will gush out! This is one of the sad love songs which netted a Top 5 smash hit for one of pop rock's most romantic of groups.

I Will Always Love You, by Whitney Houston, originally from the 1992 movie soundtrack to The Bodyguard

Oftentimes when a breakup occurs, for whatever reason, at least one person is left still feeling so much love for another, and so the title alone of one of my favorite sad love songs applicable to breakups is so right for a catharsis upon hearing it. Houston sings this song with haunting pierceness at the end of the movie, The Bodyguard, as her and Kevin Costner's characters don't stay together, but the feeling of love lingers.

Nothing Broken But My Heart, by Celine Dion, originally from her 1992 self-titled album.

This is one of the sad love songs where Dion sings about how she's coping just fine after a breakup, but you can tell that it's all an act, and it finally builds up into the catharsis that's needed over a breakup. I especially like the last part of the song where it seems as if she's got an angelic chorus backing up her up as she comes clean over the pain of losing her lover.

Every Breath You Take, by The Police, originally from the 1983 album Synchronicity