When women wants to talk to guys, do they just want us to listen or offer advice?

Are they just venting their frustrations and hope that guys understand them or do they really want our personal opinions / advice?





I've read a ton of articles about this (here in Yahoo!) and most of them says that women just merely want their men to listen when they do this kind of, er, 'stuff'; but I know from first-hand experience that different things for different girls: some wants you to give them advice and some don't.





Now I'm twice confused about girls than before -- what do women really want? Women do you think it's a turn off if a guy offers you his personal advice?When women wants to talk to guys, do they just want us to listen or offer advice?
Girls want to talk about problems, guys want to fix problems. We girls usually just want you to listen and be sympathetic, not solve the problem, unless we specially ask you to. Guys will think about a problem, working it out in his mind and usually don't verbalize...a woman wants to talk about the problem. By talking, I mean she wants to think out loud about the problem, run it through her mind, think of solutions. She does this all out loud. So, you are partially right; some girls do want advice, but I would not offer it unless she specifically says ';What do you think?'; or ';What would you do?'; Then I would give my opinion. Women just process things differently than men, we like to verbalize, where men like to mull things over by themselves in their own minds. As to what do women want? A guy that is a good listener, who will not interject his thoughts or ideas when they are not wanted. A guy who does not get angry when a woman does not take his advice.When women wants to talk to guys, do they just want us to listen or offer advice?
We want both perhaps? I know I do. I want to vent and just have someone listen and time to time offer their thoughts. When a guy gives his advice or thoughts on the subject we know he's listening and not just tuning us out. I know there's certain occasions that we just want to vent, but if a guy just sits there not corresponding, how do we know he's really listening to us? If you're not sure if you should offer your thoughts you can always ask, ';would you mind if I tell you what I think?'; or something to that effect.
I think we want to do both. Sometimes we just need to vent about our situation. Most of the time I want the person to give me their opinions/advice. I do not think this is something that only women do.