Reword sentence please - more sophistication?

Question

My hopes of us sharing a real “mother-daughter relationship” were crushed.

Answer 1

My aspirations that we would ever share a true mother-daughter relationship were ruined.

Answer 2

Remove the quotation marks around 'mother-daughter relationship.'

Beyond that, who are you writing this to?  To your mother/daughter?  Or is this part of an essay directed to a third party?

If the former, then what you've said is fine the way it is.

If the latter, you might try this:  My hopes that we might have been able to share a real mother-daughter relationship were unrealized.

Answer 3

The bond I'd hoped we would share, turned out to be nothing more than lost hope. You shat on my cheerios.

Answer 4

It already sounds good.  But I'll try.

"I was devastated to realize that the dream of us sharing a true mother/daughter relationship would never come to fruition."

Answer 5

Crushed were my hopes of sharing, "a real mother daughter relationship."

Answer 6

I would say don't use quotation marks for mother-daughter relationship.  It makes sense without quote marks.

And try this:  instead of saying "my hopes...were crushed," say the thing [the thing that crushed the hopes] crushed my hopes of us sharing a real mother-daughter relationship.  For example, "Her unruly attitude crushed my hopes of us...."  Or, whatever the case may be.  This way it shows the actual crushing verb going on.

Other than that it sounds fine.