Girl I've been talking to on and off for a couple of months. Unfortunately fell into the trap of starting to text her more because I enjoy conversing with her. Now trying to back it off because I realized what I'd done (and because she cracked a nice guy joke at me).

So I'm backing off on the texting a bit. Pro tips on how to make it effective rather than making it look like I'm obviously pulling off piss-poor game that I read on a website?

I figure I should make sure my replies aren't way suddenly arrogant...i.e. quality over quantity. Figuring it'll take a few days for this to really work too.

Bonus question: she seems to enjoy talking on the phone more than texting with me...should I ease up for a couple days until she starts talking more, then just gun right for a call?