Help with girlfriend?

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So I got a girlfriend five months ago. She's been my best friend for a few years, so I decided that she would make a good girlfriend. And she's really cool and awesome and whatnot. Like, we even each other out--she's a little bit crazy, outgoing, and extroverted, whereas I'm more reversed, introverted, logical and grounded. I really like her, I have for years, and I know that if I marry someone, it will have to be her, because she's the only person I've ever liked the way I do, and she's taught me so much about humans and NT behavior so it really helps in that respect, too. I mean, really, I love her. I know that. There's just one thing I might need some help with. She's very extroverted and has separation anxiety because she had some dad issues, so if I don't text her at least once a day, she thinks I've forgotten about her. Which I'm okay with, it's just she always texts back, and then I'm expected to text back because of social etiquette. Also, she tends to think I'm lying just because a bunch of people have lied to her in the past. But I don't lie. Lying is just stupid. And I've told her that, but she has a hard time comprehending that. Also, her primary love language is touch, so she touches me a lot. And when I'm not expecting it, and I feel someone touching me, I panic hardcore. It's just I feel everything, it's like the "itchy tag effect." Also she's very extroverted so she wants to do stuff like two to three times a week. Before I started dating her, I would go out with friends two to three times PER YEAR. I just need help explaining this to her in a way that won't hurt her feelings. Also, she needs that feeling of being around people and of being touched, so I need to know how to do that without basically shooting myself in the foot and making myself miserable.
I really do love her, and I'm not going to let her go, so please don't suggest that.
Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you.

If you want this to work, you'll both have to be understanding towards each other, and you will have to meet each other halfway on some things.

jealous. she sounds lovely except the thinking you're lying part.
I'm fine being touched so long as its only the girl I'm romantic with. I just don't like being surprise touched by other people. I have to put in effort to do that, while with women I dated it was just more with the flow.

you just need to talk to her about this stuff I guess.

You shouldn't have any problem being able to prove that you are completely honest so long as you are completely honest. The communication-thing definitely needs work and you will both need to put forth effort towards the maintenance required of such NT + AS relationships. You should be good otherwise so long as you can give her ample & multiple reasons to be able to like completely put her trust in you.

Just know that NT's seem to have typically grown up & live in a « dog eat dog » type of world where it's basically « must do unto others before they do unto self » rather than the typical AS-ideology which is more like « only do unto others as you would have them do unto you » (yes, I am aware that there are exceptions, but NTs are usually a lot more prone to these Jekyll & Hyde syndromes, but if you can brace yourself & create many positive-memories with her as you give her any kind of attention desired by her, then you should have no problem being able to have her choose to stay loyal to you).