YOU have to prepare two separate returns---one for each spouse----following all of the rules regarding standard deduction or itemized deductions, etc. TurboTax will not do that for you. You will pay for each return if you are using online TT.
The wildly different refund amounts you were seeing were because you did not prepare separate returns the right way.
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