Aaah well that makes sense. Though invariably, I'm always coming from the west when I meet him, so I always meet him before I do her. In fact this last I went through this part was the first out of probably 8 times that I actually saw the wife/girlfriend, and that's only because I intentionally went around him, wanting to come back and club him later when I was stronger heh. It was kind of a nice surprise to see something I never saw before in the game. I bet there's lots more stuff like that. I still haven't done some part I read about concerning someone that's trying to fight Burleah (sp?) and his girlfriend. ...something like that
