Or is it longing you describe more than love? We all want someone to be intimate with, but that is want not love.

Love carries an outward motion, want is an inward motion. See the difference?

The magic of it has to do with giving your love, for free, to yourself, to everyone and everything you meet, see, and touch, and the sublime surprise of where it comes back to you from. It's unpredictable.

Keep trying. Be honest with yourself about it. What parts of what I express are about longing and lack, and what parts of my expression are about the giving of an abundance inside myself?

My message here is that nothing brings love into your life quite like the giving of it from your own heart with all your might.