Looking for a psychologist to explain to me what the key problem is in a type of person i've occasionally seen. You know those people who are always getting screwed? Like they've always got a set of problems caused by the people in their life fucking them over. It cannot be that these people just happen to live where all the worlds con artists retire. They have to be doing something weird and different to keep finding these people that screw them. And for the purposes of this discussion, let's assume the abuse is real and not just a story they're making up for some reason. That's a definite possibility, but the alternative question is more interesting.

And i don't have more details to give because i'm genuinely not thinking of a specific example here. I've met or seen like half a dozen people in my life where they somehow always manage to get screwed and i was flabbergasted how.

So what the fuck are they likely doing wrong?