I was reading your latest conversation with your wife. As I see it, maybe it was a good thing that your cell phone broke because it meant that you and your wife had a conversation. And did you notice you entered into dialogue with her? That's really positive; it means you can still connect.
Your dialogue stopped when you talked about the woman she worked with. If I were you I wouldn't bring it up again, trust that she's heard you and it's now up to her whether or not she acts on that in her own time.
It seems that when you and your wife text you often seem to 'bark' orders or statements at each other. The conversation seemed to work. Something to build on perhaps?
