Examples:

• They decided to buy the car on credit. This became a yoke around their neck.
• Trying to get his sister to leave the abusive marriage she was in was pointless, and had become nothing but a yoke around his neck.
• I wish I had never bought that house. The mortgage on it has turned into a real yoke around my neck.
• It was time for the laziest son to move out, for he had been nothing but a yoke around his father’s neck lately.
• He finally realized that he was in a toxic relationship, and he vowed to free himself from that yoke around his neck.