lover, n.

I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved. There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
I want us to go back down to that root.
I want you to be the one who loves me.
I want to be the one who loves you.

-David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary