Being with you is something like a metaphor – 
which is to say it’s a simile, 
because you can’t be like a metaphor. 
You either are or you are not metaphoric. 
You can be like a simile, 
but never actually be a simile – 
that’s more like a metaphor. 
Being with you is like being a metaphor – 
a metaphoric simile. 
Being with you is like a simile – 
in that it’s more like a metaphor for something else. 
But what?.. 
A simile.

Being with you is a semantic nightmare.
So a metaphor … or something like that.