Mine offers his opinion when asked, and sometimes even when I don't ask. A couple of times, he has just blurted out, "you NEED to do X!" Once he said he was offering his opinion on what he thought I should do, and I was free to reject it, but he was totally going to make fun of me if I rejected his advice and the whole thing 'went south,' but he did it in such a lovely, joking manner that I was okay with it.

For what it's worth, I am forever telling certain people what I think they should do, so I have no room to whine and moan when they do the same thing to me.