Well, you are really the only one that can break your part of that dynamic.
It's so interesting to me that men have the very best intentions and what to "help" and "fix" yet it is the very thing that annoy women the most. Yet, the more women become annoyed by this very thing, the more men want to do it!
My H would come home and ask me about my day. I would tell him the good and bad. If I had a difficult client or project I would tell him about it. To me I was just talking and when I was done he would say "well, drop the client". WHAT? I am just sharing my day and he is giving me idea after idea on how to "fix" something that didn't need fixing!
I don't know what the balance is really because it's REALLY nice when somebody wants to help you out. I just feel there is something in between that can please both a man and a woman!