The Situation
What they describe is narrower. They are fine until a specific thing: one person’s messages, one building, one family gathering. Afterwards it takes a day to clear, then two, then it stops clearing at all and Sunday evening starts feeling like Friday evening.
Sometimes there is a named person involved and the belief that they wish you harm. Sometimes there is not, and what is reaching you is the ordinary hostility of a situation nobody designed. The work is the same; the report tells you which one it found.
A Filter, Not a Wall
This is the single most useful thing to understand before ordering. Protection work does not stop events. Difficult people stay difficult, bad weeks still happen, and the person you are worried about does not disappear.
What changes is how much of it lands. People describe it afterwards as distance rather than absence - the same situation, experienced from slightly further away, with the capacity to think during it rather than only after.
Seven days of working, then it settles over the following weeks. It is placed on you rather than on a place, which is why it travels - the alternative, for an address rather than a person, is the home protection service.
What Weakens It
Almost never time. What undoes this kind of boundary is a change the person makes without connecting the two: resuming contact they had ended, moving back into a situation they left, or deciding after three good months that it was probably nothing.
The report lists what to watch for in your specific case. Most of the failures I hear about afterwards are on that list.
What This Will Not Do
This is not for physical danger, and that matters more than anything else on this page. If someone has threatened you, is following you, or has made you afraid for your safety, that belongs with the police and, in the UK, with a domestic abuse service. I will say so instead of taking the order, every time, and I have done so more than once.
It also does nothing to the other person. No work here is aimed at them, they are not affected by it, and if what you want is for something to happen to someone, I am not the practitioner for that.