Syncing - unwanted contacts? help!!

everytime i sync my iphone to my PC, all the contacts from the other persons phone who uses the same PC end up on my phone. how can i stop this?
i am selecting the correct phone from 'Devices' and it says i am signed in on the correct phone.

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I've had an iPhone 4 for a while. The wife just took delivery of an iPhone 4S. We both use the same MacBook. We also both share the same Apple ID Account. I Sync'd my contacts with the Macbook sometime ago. When my wife changed over from her old iPhone 3G to her new 4S she sync'd contacts. Then she set up her new 4S and sync'd again. She got all her contacts and my old contacts! We both had iCloud Contacts enabled. The wife then went into her contacts on her iPhone and deleted all the unwanted contacts (My Contacts!). Now all I have left on my iPhone are her contacts! I've lost all mine!!! They Don't even appear in the Contacts App on the Macbook! Please help!
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Paul,
I just got off of the phone with Apple support. The one option they identified was to see if there was device back-up in iTunes. Here is how:
Open iTunes
Click on the iTunes in toolbar (top left of computer)
Open preferences
Open Devices
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I had one from my original sync with the new 4S. Now, we did not go through the process as I may have another option to obtain my contacts through the Exchange server as this is my business phone. You can contact support and work with them as they were extremely helpful, and it was easy to schedule a meeting time.
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Here's a test to perform - using a computer's browser, log into icloud.com and go to the Contacts page. If most of them are gone, then they are gone.
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