The results, published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, showed that 70 percent of women had at some point experienced a crush on someone else while dating their current partner.

And unsurprisingly, most of those objects of desire came in the form of people at work.

But the key point was that the women questioned weren't worried about the significance of being sexually attracted to someone else. Most felt it had no impact on their primary relationship - to the point that they did not even tell their partner about it - and some even felt their infatuation enhanced it.

"Women had varied experiences with, and diverse strategies for, managing crushes," the authors wrote. "The majority of women reported the crush did not impact their relationship, participants also reported that these crushes improved their desire for their partner."

For these women, the crush acted as a conduit to sexual desire with their partner, as they "described transferring the emotion from the crush to the partner and acting on this with their partner."

The researchers concluded that "women often funneled increased sexual desire from a crush into their primary relationship."

Being sexually attracted to someone else makes your relationship stronger, study finds