Multiple devices with seperate icloud accounts

Ok, I am going to try and explain this as best as possible.  On my itunes account between me and my fiancee we have 2 computers, 2 ipads and 2 iphones.  He set up an icloud account that is showing my email address as the itunes account but it is then linked to his email address and his devices.  I would like to set up my own icloud account that links only my email accounts and calendars (well right now I am only interested in getting my calendars to sync).  I am very confused on how to make this happen since he is linked to my email address (which is also my apple id)  Is there anyone out there that can give me some guidance on this???   Any help would be most appreciated.

If you don't want to share calendars, contacts, email, etc. then you both need different Apple IDs for iCloud (i.e. two different iCloud accounts).  This has no relation to iTunes accounts - you can both use the same one if you want to share your music, etc.  Since your boyfriend is using your email address (I assume this is your Apple ID), for icloud, then he should set up a new account for him to use.

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