You hit the nail on the head with the "father figure" thing.
So, Pup, are you implying that you had indeed been guilty of acting like a "father figure" towards your W -- i.e., "shaming" and "self-righteous"?
Or, was it (as I suspect) that this was your W's perception of you, simply because you still held to your moral convictions, and not that you held anything over her head?