Simplify your communications with your committed partners, whether romantic or platonic. Right now, distilling your needs, wants, and desires into plainly articulated phrases can help avoid miscommunication and minor chaos. But even your sharpest interpersonal instincts can’t entirely prevent crossed wires. When your words do get lost in translation, rely on a skill set that transcends language: the ability to laugh at yourself. From that starting point, everything else will fall into place.