IMessage contact address problems

I am a little perplexed about how to set up iMessage correctly.
I have iMessage activated. My settings are that "I can be reached by iMessage" at my phone number and email. I "Start new conversations from" my email.
The first problem I have is when I talk to my girlfriend (she has an iPhone). I frequently have two different iMessage threads with her and it is very frustrating. In one thread, if I click on her Contact info it highlights her phone number. The other thread, it highlights her email. Its annoying to not keep everything in one unified thread. Is there anyway to do this? Is the problem on her end or my end?
Keeping the above problem in mind, I would also like to unify my iMessage with my iPad messaging. I get this to work sporatically, but I would like it if I could consistently see all my iMessage conversations in my iPad as if I were looking at my iPhone. My girlfriend also has an iPad (although she hasn't been using it for messaging) so I would like to be able to set up the same for her.
I just don't understand the need for separating iMessages into two threads depending on the address. It would seem to be easier for everyone if you just kept it unified based on the name.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, did you ever fix this problem? I'm having the same issue.

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