Two iPhones, One Mac, Need advice

My wife and I are going to upgrade our one dumb phone to two iPhones.
I understand that it's best to have two separate Apple ID's so as to differentiate between her and my phone, correct? -- We want text messages for her to go to her and messages for me to go to me.
It's not possible to have two Apple ID's on one e-mail, so what's the best solution for a second ID?
Any other advice/suggestions appreciated.

Create a free email account at gmail, yahoo, outlook.com, or one of the other email services and use that to create the second Apple ID.
Also, create separate user accounts on your computer for each of you to avoid unintentionally mixing up your data.

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