2 phones, different contact lists

Hi,
I wonder if someone can help?
I have an iphone 4, we have just upgraded my wife to my old iphone 4. I have a mega list of contacts, my wife has a sensible list of contacts - we do not want to share them but we want to share itunes, how do we do this please?
Thanks
Fults

Hello Fults,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities. You can tell iTunes to not sync contacts. The following article will, just uncheck the box to sync. Alternatively you can also have independent iCloud accounts to handle the contact syncing.
Learn more about iCloud.
http://www.apple.com/icloud/
iOS: Syncing with iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
Regards,
-Norm G.

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