Help a Shine reader out: What are your best tips for communicating with your partner?

We cover a lot of topics here in Love & Sex that range from first dates and worst dates to three ways and parting ways.

And now a really great question has been raised by a reader: Why aren't we talking more about HOW to communicate with the person we're dating or married to?"

So now it's your turn, Shine readers, to be the experts. What is your best advice on getting your point across in a healthy, respectful, nonjudgmental way to your partner?