Yeah it seems like the modern experience of alienation and the overhanging effects of a patriarchal society have left a lot of young guys with a genuine starvation of kindness or physical affection from others, and they end up abstracting that sincere starvation of love and emotional fulfilment into the most-similar experience they've had in their lives, with their mother.

Lord knows I can sympathize with being romantically deprived, or feeling empty and emotionally unfulfilled, but the healthy way to reckon with that is to take that longing and focus it into being a giving and active partner in a relationship with someone who enthusiastically reciprocates, not marrying some mythical ur-matriarch that will give them a completely one-sided, unqualified avenue of love framed around replicating the (possibly) sole female authority figure in their lives that social mores expects to give love and affection.

Edit: Should note I'm trying to come at the more charitable angle of all this. There's also the deeply sexist angle that can sometimes be at play, with a more conscious objectification of women as mother figures, and the subsequent feeling of entitlement to their affection without reciprocation.