Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" - sh.itjust.works

I dig through my memories and I remember this was a thing since I was a kid. Like I remember my mom just constantly saying “We love you a lot, do you know that?” and then straight up asking me: “Do you love your mom and dad?” (speaking in 3rd person for some reason) then followed by “Do you love mom or dad more?”… and I remember always just answering that: Yes I love them, and mom more than dad… (I remember that is probably just honestly how I felt, I never lied about it) I don’t remember dad ever asking this… Sometimes (when I was younger) mom asked me: “If mom and dad got a divorce, who are you going with?”… wtf mom And like sometimes they argue then threaten divorce… So… mom has higher income so I feel like at the time I just told her I’d go with her solely because of the financial stability… (I mean dad also doesn’t really show affection… 🤷‍♂️) (This was many years ago, during my teenage years. The divorce thing never happened, empty threats…) … Now as a young adult, I’m dealing with depression and she still says this… and like I feel very awkward when she asks me “Do you love me?” I do feel an attachment towards her, but idk if you can call it “love” per se. So sometimes I stay quiet… so it just ended with an awkward silence… Then mom was like: “Do you you not love me? Do you hate me?” No wtf mom, that’s not what I meant… Do parents just do that? Are they seeking validation about their decision to choose to have children? Cultural Context: My family is ethnically Chinese.