IMessage on two iPhone with one account

I have two iPhones under my Apple ID (mine and my wife's). I am unable to set up my wife's iPhone using iMessage using her email address. It alway says "unable to verify" or "already in use" Since her email address is unique to her, there is no way it is already in use. Need help, thanks!

OK here is the official way this works...
1. You can setup alternate emails and register them Apple and your icloud/me account is what is used to verify everything. Basically Apple becomes the DNS service of that email address to route imessages to the correct device.
2. The reason you see a message about the email address already being registerd is my guess you have used that email address to register facetime on a device that is not a phone (ad phones are usually linked by phone number). Since my primary personal email is on my imac facetime and my work email is on my macbook pro I could not use these two email addresses for imessage as Apple is using them to route facetime requests to those unique PCs. So I had to use my mobileme/icloud email address with my phone and ipad.
3. Now for my wives iphone and ipad we attached to my mobileme/icloud account but then used her personal email to be the additional address and then you can delete your mobileme/icloud if you put it in there already.
So no imessage requests to my phone/email go to both my ipad and iphone and my wive's ipad and iphone is unique to her phone and pesonal email for her imessage needs.
works well but not easy for the average not tech with many devices to figure out...
...I'm a tech who has been drinking Apple kool-aid for about 5 years...

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