My husband is the only one I'll let ride my bike, but he has his own and I trust that he will treat mine the same way he treats his! With my FZ6, he hasn't done much more than bring it from the garage around to the front of the house on occasion. He has also said that I could ride his ZX-11!
With my first bike, an EX500, he did take it on a couple spins around the block, but that was usually at my request. As a novice rider, if something didn't feel right, I'd ask him to take a ride and see if everything was 'normal', or if there was a problem.