They did. When Elliot talks about that story, it's him who defends the female hero and she offers him her handkerchief when he gets a bloody lip from it.
On my second save, when I married Elliot, a rather strange line came from him when we moved to Brightwood. He always says some generic lines, but this one was so poignant that I thought I was imagining it. I swear to God it happened. I nearly dropped my controller in shock because I've never heard that line come from him before in all of my playthroughs.
It went something like: "
I don't know what you're thinking and you always seem to have this far away look. I just want to say that you'll never be like Logan." This was before I became Queen, fyi.