the most obvious response would be that in season 6 they were all too busy dealing with their own crap to provide any real support for other people's.
Definetly agree with that, not to mention some of your other points (the Anya ones, etc.) Buffy in particular was barely functioning, though I don't quite recall how much the others picked up on that.
You're also right that after the fluke incident the group dynamic changed again. He lost some of his closeness with Willow. Buffy was being all akward in the middle and Cordy was suddenly the enemy. Plus of course things started to heat up again with the big bad. I can't see Xander really putting his own needs first once everything started going down.
As for the 'sharing'. Let's face it, they were really just throwaway comments, that in my mind at least, he was putting out there to see if anyone would respond to them.
Re: The one where; Xander tends to learn his lessons and learn em well
Definetly agree with that, not to mention some of your other points (the Anya ones, etc.) Buffy in particular was barely functioning, though I don't quite recall how much the others picked up on that.
You're also right that after the fluke incident the group dynamic changed again. He lost some of his closeness with Willow. Buffy was being all akward in the middle and Cordy was suddenly the enemy. Plus of course things started to heat up again with the big bad. I can't see Xander really putting his own needs first once everything started going down.
As for the 'sharing'. Let's face it, they were really just throwaway comments, that in my mind at least, he was putting out there to see if anyone would respond to them.