This gives you an opportunity to greatly expand your social circle. Men are never more motivated than when they are cornered. She will wonder where you went / what you're up to and why you aren't begging for her attention or crying that she broke up with you.
After you freeze her out for 3 weeks (this is the average time it takes a girl to reach her peak of missing you. Absolutely NO CONTACT) You CAN go and hang out with your friends. When she sees you, act un-phased and like nothing is wrong. This is where most guys go wrong. If you accidentally show her that you were INTENTIONALLY ignoring her, then your no-contact will have done nothing. Overtly communicating a withdrawal of attention generates no vagina tingles. Also, do not start hanging out with your friends regularly, you can hang out with them ONCE after 3 weeks and then go back to taking over the world or digging trenches for your enemies.
You shouldn't have responded to her text. The reason why women text their ex bfs something after a while is two fold. One, they WANT you to be broken and to keep missing them. It is ego-gratifying for a girl to feel like she was the "one who got away." And second, it's a simply shyt test to see how much of you she has wrapped around her fingers. A cocky / funny reply was good, but you should've responded two days later, or maybe not responded at all. "Brevity is the Soul of Wit"
Finally on a more practical note, you could still hang out with JUST your guy friends. Be busy with LIFE, you shouldn't have time to hang out that much anyways. And make sure she doesn't think that you are going out of your way to avoid her, or else you are just going to reinforce your Oneitis. The reason you want to avoid her is because you have a world to conquer and no time for skirt chasing.
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If you give up hanging out with your friends just because of her, it shows that you're such a wimp and still the AFC that depends/workship her.
Amen. A lot of guys go out of their way to black list a girl after they dumped, this only symbolically reinforces her importance in your life. You must act nonchalant about it, her pu5sy isn't made out of gold.