Do any theologians argue that in the Fall, Adam sacrificed himself out of love for Eve?

I've heard a few Christians say, perhaps half-jokingly, that Adam only ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden because he realized that it was the only way for him to stay with Eve. By this they seem to suggest that Adam only sinned out of a sense of altruism, sacrifice, and love. I don't find the biblical evidence for this view convincing, but when researching the origin of it, I stumbled across [John Milton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milton) 's [*Paradise Lost*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost) . In the following lines, Eve is responding to Adam's choice to eat the forbidden fruit despite the threat of death: > Tenderly wept, much won that he his Love
Had so enobl'd, as of choice to incurr
Divine displeasure for her sake, or Death.
([Book 9, lines 991–93](https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_9/text.shtml)) Thus, I wonder: 1. Is *Paradise Lost* actually the origin of this theory? 2. Have any Christian theologians/commentators in church history (before or after Milton) argued for this interpretation of the Fall? Or is this simply an example of pure poetic license that has infiltrated Christian thought?