"helping me solve problems and giving me advice about things"

That would specifically be Te.

If you are just going to follow your feelings anyway then there is no reason to seek out his advice. It may help him to understand if you can articulate why something "feels wrong" to you (not sure exactly what you mean by that).

Likewise, part of giving advice means recognizing that the other person isn't required to follow it. If they were, it wouldn't be advice, it would be telling them what to do.