{"id":675,"date":"2025-09-18T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=675"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:10:29","slug":"bruce-willis-early-dementia-symptoms-led-wife-emma-to-think-something-i-was-doing-in-our-marriage-wasnt-working-anymore-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Willis\u2019 Early Dementia Symptoms Led Wife Emma to Think \u2018Something I Was Doing in Our Marriage Wasn\u2019t Working Anymore\u2019 (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"402\">Emma Heming Willis recalls the confusion she felt as Bruce\u2019s behavior began to shift long before his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis in 2022. At first, she blamed herself, thinking it was a marital issue. \u201cFTD doesn\u2019t scream, it whispers,\u201d she says, describing the subtle early signs.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"660\">The diagnosis brought both heartbreak and relief\u2014finally giving clarity that it wasn\u2019t Bruce, but the disease. Yet, like millions of caregivers, Emma was left with little guidance. \u201cBeing sent on our way with no support was really traumatic,\u201d she shares.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"662\" data-end=\"961\">Emma channeled her struggle into her new book, <em data-start=\"709\" data-end=\"733\">The Unexpected Journey<\/em>, a resource she wishes she had from the start. She also made the difficult decision to move Bruce into a serene home tailored to his needs, allowing their daughters to live more freely while preserving special family moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Heming Willis recalls the confusion she felt as Bruce\u2019s behavior began to shift long before his frontotemporal dementia (FTD) diagnosis in 2022. At first, she blamed herself, thinking it was a marital issue. \u201cFTD doesn\u2019t scream, it whispers,\u201d she says, describing the subtle early signs. The diagnosis brought both heartbreak and relief\u2014finally giving clarity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}