Iphone identity confusion

My wife and I both have iPhones. My wife is not at all technical, so I set her phone up and logged it into my iTunes account. Everything has been working all right for quite a while. However, now I have discovered that when I look in the Contacts on my iPhone, it says next to my wife's name "me". When our daughter wants to reply to an SMS from my wife, I receive the SMS. When our daughter calls my wife on Facetime, it rings on my iPhone.
I do not see in my iPhone settings anything that would explain this. I also cannot see in the Contacts why my wife is identified as me.
Thanks for any help in this.

That happens because both of you are using the same Apple ID. Your wife needs her own Apple ID to use for iCloud syncing, iMessage and FaceTime.
She can continue to use (if this is what you want), your Apple ID for iTunes and the AppStore, so that both of you can continue to enjoy the same music and apps, specially those that you have to pay for.

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