The best-known version of this song was recorded by Reba McEntire who released it in August 1990 as the first single from her fifteenth album Rumor Has It.
The song became McEntire's fourteenth number one country hit, staying at the top spot for one week in late 1990 and spending a total of 20 weeks on the country chart.
The narrator knows her husband no longer loves her, and is agonizing over whether to play along to keep him close (knowing he is only staying out of obligation), or to do the right thing and let him go.
At the end of the video, the narrator (played by Reba) symbolically releases a wild horse.
