She must also know that his nervous system may be just as sensitive as hers.

Sometimes it is more sensitive, and should be accordingly respected.

Demand nothing and expect nothing, but hold him to his best in your mind and wait.
That is a rule that would work wonderfully if every woman who is puzzled about her husband's restlessness and lack of interest in home affairs would apply it steadily and for long enough.

It is impossible to manufacture a happy, sympathetic married life artificially--impossible! But as each one looks to one's self and does one's part fully, and then is willing to wait for the other, the happiness and the sympathy, the better power for work and the joyful ability to play come--they do come; they are real and alive and waiting for us as we get clear from the interferences.
"Why doesn't my husband like to stay with me when he comes home?
Why can't we have nice, cozy times together ?" a wife asks with sad longing in her eyes.
And to the same friend the husband (who is, by the way, something of a pig) says: "I should be glad to stay with Nellie often in the evening, but she will always talk about her worries, and she worries about the family in a way that is idiotic.

She is always sure that George will catch the measles because a boy in the next street has them, and she is always sure that our children do not have the advantages nor the good manners that other children have.