Trying to sync my iPad and iPhone to a new account without losing all information

Okay here is the situation. I have an iPhone and an iPad all synced to my iTunes's account. My fiancé has as iPhone and our new iMac synced to his iTunes account. I am fully aware that you cannot merge two accounts. We would like to use his as our primary account since that's what we set up on our iMac. How can I sync the iPhone and the iPad without losing all the information on both?

You will need to connect both to your computer via your USB cord then launch iTunes. Take a look at this link, http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1386

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