Yes. For a long time (20 years +) my wife only rode with me on a tandem. Eventually we got her her own bike but she still didn't ride it very much. After my injuries we bought a series of recumbents including a tandem recumbent bicycle. We have since sold that and purchased a pair of recumbent tricycles that can be linked together to form a tandem. Today we mostly ride separately, she on her tricycle and me on my SWB recumbent. She is also comfortable going out to ride by herself. We are planning to go to the Midwest Recumbent Rally in Stevens Point Wi next month but we haven't decided whether to ride separately or to bring both trikes to link together.