She said yes then ghosted your meetup text. Here's what to do.

A yes about being free is not a yes about a specific date. One is easy to say in the moment. The other requires her to actually show up and be there with you. That friction is real, and lots of people hit it and back away without meaning to be cruel.

She might also be managing multiple conversations and picked you as a backup option. When someone else solidified plans, you dropped down the list. Or she was being polite to avoid an awkward no, which is common even over text. The gap between her initial response and the silence tells you her level of real interest dropped. Treat that as information, not rejection.

Your move is to lower the stakes and give her room to engage without looking needy. Don't repeat the plan or ask her to confirm it. Instead, acknowledge the silence lightly and introduce something new that requires her input. This could be asking for a preference she hasn't given yet, or offering an alternative that actually gives her a choice. The goal is a message that's easy to respond to and doesn't feel like you're waiting by the phone.

Don't ghost her back, though. That just creates two people being silent and you never know what happened. Send one follow-up text that shows you're still interested but not invested in begging her for a yes.

Send your pull-back message within 24 hours of the silence. It should land like you had something else on your mind, not like you've been staring at her lack of response. If she doesn't reply to that within another 24 hours, stop. Don't send a third message. You've given her two clear openings and she hasn't taken either one.

Sometimes people come back days later with an apology or a real reason. Fine. You can respond to that. But once you hit the third unanswered message, you're chasing, and chasing never makes someone more interested.