Multiple user/ID -address book not separable

We have two users and two apple id one for me ond one for my partner on my imac. Why it is not possible at all to have also two different addressbooks? Asked the support phone line, he told me I have to go in by separate ID`s but I did, always the adress book of my partner is overwritten by my addressbook...Its desperating
Anyone has an idea what I am doing wrong?

Thank you for the clarification but I am not sure having understood correctly where to sign in the user account to the icloud- in the system pref/icloud or in the URL www.icloud.com or in the system pref/mail-cal-contacts or in itunes?
We have two different user accounts on our imac and of course signed in with our different apple ID`s - at least it lokks like...

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