Before any humans were created God was already loving.  The Father loved the Son in the Spirit and the Son loved the Father in the Spirit. I think we can say that God is a circle of joyful love. 

Because God is a circle of love he is content. He is not needy.  He is not lacking anything.  And yet, the love of the lovers cannot be contained.  They must expand the circle. The three persons had such joy in the circle of love they wanted to extend it to others.  So they created us to share in the love and to become loved and loving with them in the circle of love.   The God who is love created us in love, through love and for love within the circle of love. 

We did not want all this.  We wanted to live our own way.  We wanted to live in self-love.  So we rejected the circle of love.  But God didn’t give up on his purpose.  We did not love the God who is love, but in love, he loved us and came after us.  Through Jesus and the Spirit, he brings us back within the circle of love to be loved and loving within the circle of love that God is.