How do I reset which of my devices receive iMessages?

Our family has five devices, all of which have been completely tied to one apple id. Two iPhones, two macs, and one iTouch. My wife has one of the macs and an iPhone, I have the other mac and the other iPhone, and the iTouch is just kind of around.
I recently upgraded my mac to Mountain Lion and wanting to take advantage of things like Notes, Messages, and Reminders I created my own apple id and icloud account. I left the iTunes store app store on my mac and phone linked to our old apple id and everything else was linked to my new apple id. Things were going great.
Then I upgraded my wife's mac to Mountain Lion. When I did that I also turned on almost all of the icloud features in system preferences. Things were still great.
Then I started getting notifications on my phone asking if I would like to use my wife's apple id to receive messages. I guess it meant on that device. I didn't take it that way. So I said yes. Now when we send each other a text, we get it back ourselves if that makes sense. I send her a text, she receives it and it's labeled that it's from me, and I get it also labeled from me. She has the same experiences.
I've messed around in Settings, but can't find a place to undo the choice I made. What else can I do?

Check the settings on your iOS devices: "Settings > Messages > Send & Receive" and also on your Mac: Open Messages > Click on Messages in the bar > Preferences > choose your account". Just change your email addresses and numbers for sending and receiving messages, this should fix your problems.

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