Any Dads or Dads to Be have issues with their own Dads?

jack19

We are due in about 2 weeks and I am so excited, nervous, scared, happy. All the emotions.  My relationship with my own father kind of sucks to put it bluntly.  He split when I was 8 and then I didn't see him from the time I was 16 until I was 37. He's not a good Dad to me or my sister but I really have moved past what he did to us.  One of the things that scares me tho is that because I am his son I won't be a good father.  That I will be like him.  Its stupid because I am 180 degrees from him but still its this lingering, annoying fear.  I decided several months ago that I would use it as the fuel to be a great Dad.  Anyone else had to deal with something like this?