Emma Heming Willis found new ways to communicate with husband Bruce Willis after his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.

In her book, The Unexpected Journey: Finding Strength, Hope, and Yourself on the Caregiving Path, Heming Willis, 49, details the impact the disease has had on her husband linguistically. (FTD’s most common symptoms include “struggles with decision-making, movement, speaking or language comprehension,” per the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration.)

“Because Bruce can’t communicate with me (due to the variant of FTD he has, primary progressive aphasia), I must make judgment calls for him about absolutely everything. I can’t ask him how he’s feeling, what’s wrong or if something hurts,” Heming Willis wrote. “Instead, I read his body language or look into his eyes to

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