I can TOTALLY relate. And it's even worse with scorpions.
But as I've studied more about biology and ecology, I have learned that they're very helpful critters, well, the spiders are. :) Now I just let them be, except when the black widows get in places where I need to work. Then they still get squished. But, in the garden, I love seeing various spiders now. Here's some eye candy from Haiti!