Different Apple ID yet same contacts?

Ok I'm having a lot of trouble with Contacts. Prior to updating to IOS 8 me and my wife shared the same apple ID. After upgrading to IOS 8 we started to receive phone calls on the both phones instantaneously as if our phones had two phone numbers and whoever called my phone called my wife's as well. After speaking to Verizon they advised me that IOS 8 update forces people to use separate apple IDs. Fine no problem. I created a new apple ID for my wife and set it up on her phone. Then I set her icloud up and here are where the problems started. Somehow even though her apple id and icloud accounts are different then mine her contacts keep wiping out my contacts as if these are still connected. What is going on? I tried deleting contacts from my and her iclouds which would erase both of our contacts from phones then I went in and imported 200 contacts into her icloud account and they also imported into my account. WHY? This makes no sense! Different icloud and apple id's yet her we are sharing contacts. Yes we are set up for family sharing but does that mean my contacts will appear in her contacts and hers in mine? All I want is my icloud to have my contacts and her icloud to have hers.

Actually, there was a very simple fix to what was happening with your phone calls, and the misinformation that you received from Verizon compounded your issue. What happens is phones logged into the same ICloud account will both ring when the devices are together on the same Wi-Fi network. The fix for that is to go into Settings>FaceTime>iPhone cellular calls>OFF. That would have fixed the phone ringing.
As far as the iCloud issue; did you delete the original iCloud account from your wife's phone before making all of the other changes? I'm also not real familiar with the family sharing thing right now, but I'm not sure that has anything to do with contacts. I believe that just has to do with purchases, but I could be wrong. You may need to look at the User Guide to get more information about family sharing. http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf I cannot help you with the iCloud account issue other than what I provided, as I do not use separate iCloud accounts in our family.

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