Okay, DBing will save your azz in the early days. But you have to do what works for you. If the 180 is not to ignore, then don't. Don't go crazy, still live your own life, GAL etc. but if a text is well received then do it. What I am NOT advocating is ramping up the text machine cuz one got good results. (are you listening in it? lol)
If you go back in my sitch, I was a text a holic. I said to H why don't we talk? He said it is easier to say things by text...now we talk, but the early days were defined by email and text.

BTW, you are not weak because you love your wife. Weak is not fighting for it, not standing when everyone says get out. Not facing your fears and weaknesses, those things are weak. And you are not.