Contacts have all been merged together!

Hello!
Originally my husband was signed into our mac with his Apple ID, this made his contacts sync to the computer. Today I signed in with my Apple ID and all my contacts have been synced to the computer. In the contacts application on the computer it shows the contacts as both of our contacts. iCloud has then sync all these contacts to my iPhone and iPad and I don't know how to revert it to my original contacts list. Please help!

If they're merged, they're merged. iCloud could do with a rollback facility. It's all too easy to bugger up iCloud (like deleting events or even a whole calendar) and you can't go back.
The real question is, why did it happen and how can you stop it happening in future. Are you syncing contacts on iTunes as well as on iCloud? Maybe this could cause it.

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