Now of course when each one is selfishly looking out for his or her comfort neither one can be expected to understand the other.

The man thinks he is entirely justified in being annoyed with the woman's tearful, irritable complaints, and so he is--in a way.

The woman thinks that she has a right to suffer because of her husband's irritable ugliness, and so she has--in a way.

But in the truest way, and the way which appeals to every one's common sense, neither one has a right to complain of the other, and each one by right should have first made things better and clearer in himself and herself.
Human nature is not so bad--really in its essence it is not bad at all.
If we only give the other man a real chance.

It is the pushing and pulling and demanding of one human being toward another that smother the best in us, and make life a fearful strain.