Hope: just take your sweet time answering those texts, if you bother at all. My H often uses the weather to get in touch with me. He'll text me 'looks like a nice day' and I sigh and think I want to be married to someone I can have a proper conversation with (in person) not someone who texts me about hours of sunshine. The texts are 'are you still there for me?', and we're texting back 'yes, I'm still here and waiting for you'. Maybe think whether that's the message you want to be sending? If you're DBing you should probably be too busy laughing and having fun with your new friends and hobbies to be debating yourself about whether or how to answer texts.*
*I'm much better at theory than practice, maybe we need to pretend to be each other!
