IPhoto won't update, says it is associated with my boyfriend's Apple ID?

To be honest, this has been an on-going issue since April when an update came out for iPhoto. It kept asking me to sign into my Boyfriend's Apple ID to update- and, because I am a little lazy, I never did. Could I just ask him for his password? Sure. But, I'm really not sure how or why iPhoto-- and just iPhoto-- became associated with his account. Now that Mavericks is out and iPhoto has a new fancy update, I'd like to embrace the future!
As you can hopefully tell, the Apple ID is greyed out and I can't enter my own-- short of bothering Boyf for his stupid-complex password every time I need to up-date this one program, is there any particular reason this may've happened? Occasionally we are lazy and use his iTunes account on my machine and IIRC when I upgraded my OS from Lion to Mt. Lion he paid for it, and I used his Apple ID then, but I wouldn't think that would impact the individual programs.
I've tried resetting the App Store under the Debug menu, and then seeking downloads, and I'm not sure if deleting iPhoto and then redownloading it as new will be helpful as right now, except for the constant need of updates, I can USE the App, and I do use it daily, and ideally don't want to lose functionality (but, at the same time, I think I could pull it back from Time Machine so I should probably embrace deleting it temporarily without fear.)
I don't really know what I am doing.

Ahh, thank you! What a pain in the neck. I figure I must have been signed into his account at some other point in time, maybe after... watching a movie..? [Though, that'd be the iTunes store, right? Not the App Store.] Anyway, some situation must've occured where I absentmindedly updated and iPhoto is now tied up with his account.
I'll go ahead and contact support to see if they can get me sorted. I suppose I can just ask him for his password, but.. oh, you know, it's a temporary solution and I guess I was just hoping to easily get iPhoto properly associated with myself again. Thank you!

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