I can never enjoy mushy mother/daughter relationships in fiction for the same reason. Even if I know lots of people have relationships like that, it always seems sappy and unrealistic to me. Like damn, that whole arc of Buffy where her mom got cancer. I totally failed to care about it at all. It was just boring to me.
It might have to do with the fact that my birth mother died from cancer when I was very young, and I don't remember it, but everyone around me is like "oh you poor thing! you must be so traumatized!" when in fact I don't care because she's a stranger to me. That fact has totally killed all cancer plots for me and all mom death plots for me (also any plot that involves attachment to a parent that a character has never met. Why would you care??), along with the fact that I don't get along with my stepmother. I think I would have done just fine with just my Dad. Mothers, bleh.
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It might have to do with the fact that my birth mother died from cancer when I was very young, and I don't remember it, but everyone around me is like "oh you poor thing! you must be so traumatized!" when in fact I don't care because she's a stranger to me. That fact has totally killed all cancer plots for me and all mom death plots for me (also any plot that involves attachment to a parent that a character has never met. Why would you care??), along with the fact that I don't get along with my stepmother. I think I would have done just fine with just my Dad. Mothers, bleh.