Mail defaulting to wrong account when replying

I have my wife and my accounts both in Mail. Sometimes, when I do a reply, it defaults as coming from my wife's account instead of mine (even though the message was to me), which is super annoying.
The details are this:
- message comes addressed to both my wife and I (and several other people);
- message is manually moved from my account folder to a folder I made for that topic;
- maybe a few weeks later, I select that message and click "reply all";
- I type up my reply and hit "send", expecting the Mail program to default to either:
   a) the account the message was originally sent to;
   b) the first account in the accounts list under Preferences;
   Either one would be my account, not my wife's.
The problem is people reply (not "reply all") to my message and it goes to my wife's account, not mine, and I don't see it.
How do I get Mail to default to use my account as the sender?
Thanks!

These are possible causes for an e-mail to end up in the wrong place:
-additional shortnames in WGM
-forward set in WGM
-a .forward file in the user's mail directory
-an alias in /etc/postfix/aliases
-an alias in /etc/postfix/virtual
-a sieve script
-a bcc
-a catchall account
-an autoforward by the original recipient
Hope I didn't miss any.
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