If (love) relationships in clinical, hospitalized settings are understood as specific forms of a more comprehensive concept of “love,” the question arises how possible theoretical approaches to and therapeutic implications of such forms of exiled love can be conceptualized, since the efforts to classify and evaluate these relationships are manifold and are modeled differently from the perspectives of various disciplines. Against this backdrop, this chapter focuses on the salutogenic potentials of love in psychiatric wards and rehabilitation milieus. Starting with an overview of the legal and ethical aspects, which have been increasingly discussed especially since the 1980s, both the effects of love relationships in clinical settings that interfere therapy and those that benefit therapy are addressed. The cultural-historical framework for this approach is based on the differentiation of love into eros, philia, and agape, which are reflected in regard to their therapeutic and ethical normative potentials and lead to an understanding of love as an “ontological rootedness,” which can provide the basis for resource-oriented therapeutic work.