Same apple id

Help I make a mistake by using my wife's apple Id my wife has tried to great me an account but every time she put my email in in says email already in use what can I do so my wife and me have separate accounts

HI,
Historically Apple allowed people to create @mac.com Apple IDs
There was a registration page for this separate from the MobileMe registration page and it was listed an "iChat Name page"
To register you HAD to list another email that was external to Apple.
Most used their ISP one or a Google, Yahoo or MSN one.
This basically "Hard Coded" the new @mac.com name to the Verifying/Recovery email that had been used.
Prior to MobileMe the @mac.com email were issued under the preceding .Mac service.
Basically if you paid for a MobileMe account you did the same thing in listing an external email that was then "Hard Linked" to the MobileMe @me.com name your recaived.
You could not use an existing Apple ID to create an @mac.com or an @me.com Apple ID.
This includes those cases where you have used your external email as the Apple ID.
This has also continued into the iCloud registrations.
Those people paying for MobileMe were encouraged to Convert their existing @me.com ones to iCloud.
Some who had external emails as Apple IDs also converted to iCloud - initailly gaining an iCloud issued @me.com ID and later an @icloud.com ID
Creating a new account followed the @mac.com example by hard coding or linking the external email to the Apple/iCloud ID.
Examples.
Lets says we have a Google email account called "[email protected]"
You could register this directly as an Apple ID.  ([email protected])
You could link it to an Apple Issued iCloud ID.  (You get [email protected] and [email protected] is the hard linked verifying email)
In both cases you cannot create another Apple ID.
The first because it is already an Apple ID and you can't use one to create another.
In the second option it is the Recovery and Verifying email and this also cannot be used to create another Apple ID.
You can remove the "Primary Email" as it is called on your Apple ID  page
You could just use a different email to support/Create the new Apple ID.
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