How to share iTunes library: two users, two iPhones, one iTunes library

My wife and I just purchased new iPhones. I would like to be able to sync music from the library on my account to her iPhone, which syncs to her account. Please advise.

You can sync multiple iPods and/or iPhones with a single iTunes library on a computer.
If your wife has her own computer login account on your Mac where she stores her account information and calendar events which is synced with the iPhone, she can sync everything but iTunes content via your iPhone sync preferences under her login account, and sync iTunes content only via her iPhone sync preferences with iTunes under your login account.
You can disable automatic syncing when the iPhone is connected - there is a preference setting for each iPhone under the Summary tab for the iPhone sync preferences, and iTunes includes a global setting to not automatically sync when an iPod or iPhone is connected.
Your wife can create an iTunes Playlist with your iTunes library and place the music she wants available on her iPhone in this Playlist. Select sync selected Playlists and then select this Playlist only to be transferred to her iPhone. She can select which video, podcasts, etc. via her iPhone sync preferences.
You can do the same with your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
If you want to share the same iTunes library with multiple computer login accounts, you can transfer your iTunes library to an external drive which iTunes under each login account will be associated with.

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