DW3, time to live your Man***** life. She is not your Hallmark Holiday love story, and you got a glimpse of her Kryptonite. If you overtext her, she is gonna have you chatting multiple times per day to feed her Dopamine habit. I've been there. Your use of time constraints was good. Assuming you don't have the kids at home some weekend, you can probably invite her on short notice for a late glass of wine and cheesecake after "a hard day at the office/travelling/meeting clients" . To be clear this is after dinner (8pm or so), you are bringing dessert, There is no incentive to go out to an expensive dinner...See where I'm going?
I envision a text after a couple days silence...about 3-4 pm ."Hey , It's been a hell of a day and I could use some company over a bottle of wine with a fire going. I'm meeting a client for dinner but I will get some cheesecake to go if you will help me with that. I'll be home by 7:30 if you want to stop by at 8."
It's classier that "Wuts up? Wanna hang out tonite?"