Emma Heming Willis and Bruce Willis began dating in 2008 and married in 2009. Emma Heming Willis and Bruce Willis began dating in 2008 and married in 2009. Credit: AAPEmma Heming Willis says she is wrestling with the guilt she feels for celebrating happy milestones amid her husband Bruce Willis’ debilitating dementia battle. “I have not really been in the celebratory feelings of late,” Heming Willis told Hoda Kotb on her podcast Making Space. It comes after Heming Willis moved Willis into a separate home from his family so she could help manage his progressing condition. While FTD is known to cause personality changes, speech problems, Heming Willis said he did not have memory issues.