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mrJL-
Also have you thought about something like a Canon Powershot G1x ii ?
This might be kind of a sweet spot in terms of image quality and smallish / non-intimidating size.
Never owned one of these Powershots myself but whenever I used one I was impressed to be honest, pics looked great and there's just something about these bodies that feels very "friendly".
salad
So you want a camera that is great for shooting
..so basically what your 60D does nicely, but you'd like a smaller camera so your wife would use it more?
Fair enough, yet I'd argue the compact package comes with a price usually (it's more fiddly than a normal DSLR) so this is actually putting off a lot of people I know / frustrating them in the long run as as it seems harder to get the camera to do what they want.
I think it would be smart to just make her more comfortable with the 60D if that's possible, have you considered getting one of the sweet tiny pancake primes that canon does - this might help with that.