Reading through some of this thread, I wonder what the overall percentage is of people who consider themselves to have terrible relationships with their father? I don't know if this place is an outlier, but man, there's seemingly a lot of people who don't have a good relationship at all with their dad.
Anyway, I have a decent enough relationship with my father, but we're entirely different people with different interests, hobbies, skills, viewpoints...pretty much everything. So I don't think there's gonna be much "carrying on" of anything with me.