Legendary actor Bruce Willis is battling frontotemporal dementia and while his wife is extremely supportive in ways he probably wouldn't have expected, she also struggles like anyone else in that position would.

According to Fox News, Emma Heming Willis, the wife of the iconic U.S. actor, shared a touching, raw Father's Day post on social media honoring her husband, but also wishing that things were like they used to be.

In a bombshell reveal in 2023, Emma announced that her husband had been diagnosed with dementia after just a year earlier announcing that he was affected by aphasia, a voice condition.

Willis had essentially retired from the acting business at the time while his family learned how to help and support him moving forward -- no easy task.

What did she say?

Emma has taken up the duties of being her husband's caregiver and has even been a vocal advocate for those battling various brain health-related conditions, like dementia.

In a touching social media post that appeared to be a new picture of Willis and his daughter, Emma wrote, "Happy Father’s Day to all the dads living with disability or disease, showing up in the ways they can and to the children who show up for them."

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"What Bruce teaches our girls goes far beyond words. Resilience, unconditional love, and the quiet strength in simply being present.
This photo says so much. Love deepens. It adapts. It stays, even when everything else changes," she wrote in her post.

Emma added that "these symbolic days stir up a lot."

"I’m profoundly sad today," she admitted in the touching post. "I wish, with every cell in my body, that things could be different for him and lighter for our family."

Staying grounded

Emma said that she's often found in the community built around awareness of her husband's disease, that a common saying is, "it is what it is."

"And while that might sound dismissive, to me, it’s not. It grounds me. It helps me return to the acceptance of what is and not fight this every step of the way like I used to."

She had shared a series of older pictures of her family before the diagnosis and wrote a powerful, short caption,

"I want it all back," she wrote.