2iPhones, 2 iCloud IDs, shared ID for AppStore - What about Back Up to PC via iTunes?

I've seen various versions of a similar issue but nothing that specifically addressed our question so here it is...
We have 2 iPhones - wife & hub
We each have our own AppleIDs for iCloud services.
Hub uses wife's AppleID in AppStore.
This allows us each to have our own mail, contacts, calendar, messages, imessage, facetime, etc AND to also have apps purchased via the same account. BUT we have different apps on our phones and the phones are organized differently - her's has nice folders and mine has apps all over the place.
We were told that it would be a good idea to also manually back up our phones to our shared PC using the iTunes software we just installed on the PC.
After connecting wife's iPhone to PC the first time, it asked for AppleID. Easy question for her since she only has one. Phone backed up just fine.
Connected hub's iPhone to PC first time and it asked for AppleID. Not such an easy question. I have no idea which ID to use. I want my own local back up on the PC - which includes backing up my personal data (contacts, messages, etc) and the apps that I have on MY phone and NOT the apps that she has on hers.
So...if I use MY AppleID when connecting my phone to PC-itunes, does that mean that I'm not backing up any apps on my phone, since they all were bought (or downloaded) via her ID?
If I use HER AppleID when connecting my phone to PC-itunes, will iTunes on the PC combine our data (I've read a lot of SYNCING nightmares along these lines) and if I have to restore MY phone will I end up with her stuff (contacts, messages, etc) and her apps and phone organization instead of my own?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi. Thanks for replying. I already read that KB article. Unfortunately it does not address the specifics of my question/issue.
Yes, iTunes recognizes that the NAME of my phone is different from my wife's. That's VERY different from the AppleID question. BUT there is nothing in any documentation that I can find that will explain how iTunes will treat my phone and it's contents, for the purposes of back-up and restore - whether I log into iTunes on the PC using MY AppleID or my wife's AppleID.
I have yet to get past just connecting my phone because after it connects, it asks for the AppleID and, per my original post, I don't know which one to use and how using one or the other will affect the final outcome.

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