The Bachelorette alum Blake Moynes has revealed his breakup with Katie Thurston caused him to make people earn his trust now.

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It's been a year since Blake and the Season 17 The Bachelorette star broke up and ended their engagement, and Blake shared his biggest takeaway from this past year in an interview with Us Weekly.

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"I like to just give people all my trust and then, you know, if they break it, they break it. I think now I'm more veering on the side of making people earn trust," Blake, 31, told Us.

"I think [that's] the way I'm starting to go with things, just [because] I feel like I've been let down in a lot of situations, both in relationships and just [in] a lot of different categories."

The former The Bachelorette winner added, "And so [over] the last year, that's kind of my biggest takeaway is to make people earn their trust and stop just giving it away."

Blake proposed marriage to Katie during her The Bachelorette finale, which aired in August 2021.

Blake and Katie, however, fought too much and realized they weren't compatible once they took their relationship into the real world, and so they announced their breakup in late October 2021.

Several weeks later, Katie went Instagram official with a new boyfriend, John Hersey, a San Diego bartender who was one of her Week 2 The Bachelorette eliminees.

Katie's quick relationship turnaround led Blake to believe she had emotionally cheated on him, and told the press at the time how he was "speechless" and felt "flabbergasted" by her romance with John. (Katie and John previously denied any type of cheating, and they announced their breakup in June).

"In some way, it kind of still feels like yesterday," Blake admitted of his whirlwind relationship with Katie, a former bank marketing manager.

"And I think only because time off the actual show and television is one thing, but when things continue to kind of spiral off -- that, and it's six months later, all of that stuff kind of happened after the actual finale of the show -- that it kind of keeps up with you in a way."

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Blake explained how he still gets tagged on social media regarding The Bachelorette and Katie news.

"You're still getting tagged in things along on the way and memes... that makes you feel like you never got out of it, in a really weird way," Blake said.

The wildlife manager, who has a passion for animal conservation, laughed and continued, "So I remember it like yesterday. It's one that I'd like to now forget -- just in the way that it all kind of played out. But, yeah, it has been a year and it does not feel like that at all."

Blake recently said he has no unfinished business with Katie, and he appears to be healed and totally moved on from that relationship.

"I took a break [from dating] for a long time," Blake recalled.

"I was focusing on all these other things. I think naturally... you want to find that person and that love, and so, I started diving back into it again, trying for the last five weeks or so."

Blake noted how he went on a couple of dates but they "didn't go so hot."

"It didn't go so well. I didn't love how it went," Blake confessed.

"And so, again, projects and things come up where it's starting to take my efforts elsewhere. If I don't think I can fully put the effort into actually trying to make a relationship work, it's going to take someone super special who is patient and very supportive, and I just haven't felt like I've ran into that yet."

Blake therefore said he's "reluctant" to date a woman if he can't "give it [his] all."

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On Monday, Katie told fans in an Instagram Q&A session that she'd do things "differently" if she could "go back in time and redo" her The Bachelorette season "given what [she] now knows behind the scenes," according to Us.

While it's unclear if Blake would've made different choices on The Bachelorette, he admitted it's "unlikely" he'll ever appear on another reality dating show again.

"I never say never, right? Never say ever. But I would say unlikely on the dating-show aspect of things," Blake explained.

"There's some other projects I'm working on [that are] wildlife-related, but for the most part, dating, I think I'll keep that to the real world."

Blake joked how a "dating in the wild" type of show could work for him.

Blake told Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti on their "The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast" in February that he was ready to put his romance with Katie behind him and put aside any hard feelings.

Blake also suggested earlier this year he's open to dating both women from Bachelor Nation or someone without fame and a social-media following.

Blake sparked dating rumors with Love is Blind alum Natalie Lee in July, but it appears they were just working on a project together in Nevis to save sea turtles. Natalie reportedly took an interest in Blake's wildlife conservation efforts and decided to join one of his trips.

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