I have to admit, I think that if Elizabeth was going to leave Peter for someone like Neal, she would have done so already. She must have had opportunities to meet such people through her job--the glamorous, the elite, the exiting. And Elizabeth is patient, but she isn't a martyr. I figure that if she's stuck with Peter all these years, especially when you consider Peter's failings in the romance department, then it must be because she knows what she wants, and he's it.

Still, that doesn't mean she wouldn't value what Neal brings to a relationship. Elizabeth values Peter's real love for her over romantic trappings, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't appreciate someone who is good at that kind of stuff, which Neal definitely is.