No, we can't do this "you contribute everything" because the code W amounts were removed from Wages in boxes 1, 3, and 5 on both your W-2s when they were printed, so if you pretended that your spouse code W amount was actually yours, then your spouse's Wages would be wrong (as well as yours, I guess).
No, unfortunately, as we make "fudges" to the return , we have to fudge it more and more trying to make it work. So the Forms override is your only option.
And if you start making changes to your W-2s, then you risk a letter from the IRS wondering why you did not enter your W-2 to match the copy that the IRS has.
I just hope that filing MFS is worth it for you - for most taxpayers, it's not worth it because the tax rates are worse, a lot of credits are no longer available, if one of you itemizes then both of you have to (which doesn't work out well for one of the spouses), and so on.
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