Sort of, as in not wishing to harm them. I've had a fear, aversion reaction to them since I was a child, but have almost become fond of a large brown spider that resides not far from my bed.
Yesterday, when I though 'he'd' died, I felt sad. Over the months of him/her avoiding capture, every time, I felt we'd reached an agreement: "I won't hurt you, so stay away from me". But then I found that the spider wasn't quite dead, so I captured it and put it outside in a place with plants. I even poured some water near, in case he needed it.
Later on, I saw a large brown spider in the same general hang-out (inside). 😶🌫
I always let them live, unless they are VERY scary looking and there are lots of them INSIDE my house.
When I lived in my house in Michigan, I foolishly plugged in electronic devices that were supposed to drive bugs right out of your walls...and they worked. I had at least 4 spiders that looked very similar to this appear. One came out and just froze and died on my shelf.
@4meAndyou I plugged in a diffuser and put orange essential oil in it one time and a large brown recluse spider came out of hiding and was on the bedroom wall.
@DrWatson There was fat round spider who lived on our deck one summer. We’d go out and sit in chairs and watch her weave her web every evening after it cooled down. And help her with bugs if we caught one by throwing them into the web. I got up one morning and went out there and watched her gather up her web and roll it up into a ball and dispose of it by tucking it under a board in the overhang on the deck. Then the next evening she would create a new web all over again. Watched her for a good two months.
