Yeah, that's normal
A lot of the questions I'd get from people when doing many years of "full-time ministry" and some years of college instruction was "Is it normal to ___________?" It usually seemed to take a while for the person or the couple to approach a subject and ask the question. Two or three marriages counseling appointments in or a couple of office hour visits to get a sense of what I thought of something. They would sometimes "beat around the bush" to get the sense of who I was/am and what I thought about a range of topics before they'd ask. And they wouldn't always ask it that way - "Is it normal to __________?". Sometimes they'd bring something up over and over and it became obvious they wanted guidance based on what they shared they'd been doing so far in life. People want to know "Am I normal?". It was often sad to know that many of those people didn't have someone or somewhere in their life where they could ask q...