Imessage send&recieve addresses

Hey all,
I Have 2 iphones registered to the same user.
They obviosly have 2 different phone numbers and I want to get imessage on them separately.
If someone sends me an imessage to a phone number, I only get it on the appropriate phone as it should be.
However, if someone sends it to my email, it gets recieved on both devices.
I tried removing the email from imessage send&recieve addresses on one phone and keeping it on the other and that works - for a couple of hours.
After that, suddenly, the email is being added again as though it ges synced from the other device.
Is it a feature or a bug? Is it possible to do what I want?

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